The Jammu and Kashmir Medicinal Plants Introduction Center is constructing a special depot at Glacier Cave in Pahalgam to preserve the seeds of all crops around the world.
Seed Catalogue
Seed Catalogue |
The thousands of seeds stored on this glacier will be used by the bank in the event of a catastrophic disaster or nuclear war in the world and crop damage.
The Jammu and Kashmir Medicinal Plants Introduction Center will set up an observatory in a cave on this glacier gene to create a 'seed bank'.
The temperature of the plugs will help keep these seeds safe. The walls of the bank will be made of lightweight concrete and its doors will be made of special iron sheets.
Availability of planting material, tree saplings, herb seed, flower seeds, fruit plants, creepers & climbers, medicinal herbs, herbal roots, crude drugs, bulbs, tree bark, herbal tea, corms, rhizomes, stem tubers & root tubers, aromatic plants.
For more details :
Jammu, Kashmir & Ladakh Seed Bank
POB 40 GPO Srinagar, JK 190001
Address changed : Address: "Ginkgo House", A-370, Pampore Jammu, Kashmir & Ladakh 192121
WhatsApp/tELEGRAM: : 9858986794
Mob: 09858986794
Ph: 01933-223705
e-mail: jkmpic@gmail.com