The world's largest collection of rice varieties will receive
US$600,000 a year in funding under an agreement announced Monday to help
preserve crucial crop diversity.
The Philippine-based International Rice Research Institute and the Rome-based
Global Crop Diversity Trust signed the agreement to fund IRRI's Genetic
Resources Center, the two groups said.
The center's special earthquake and fireproof facility in the foothills of
Mount Makiling, south of Manila, houses at least 80,000 rice varieties, the
largest and most important collection in the world.
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