Dr. Ruaraidh Sackville Hamilton highlights to PM @narendramodi some of the rice varieties stored at the International Rice Genebank. Over the years, #India alone has shared 18,161 types of rice!
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— IRRI 🌾 (@irri) November 14, 2017
Always good to see a politician visiting a genebank.
And that 18,161 should be 18,163 now I guess.
Tourism of genebanks – by VIPs of all flavours (https://mikejackson1948.wordpress.com/2015/08/31/the-tourism-of-genebanks/)