Existing Collections and Important Germplasm in Genebank from Earthquake Affected Districts

Passport data from National Agriculture Genetic Resources Centre (NAGRC) in Nepal was analyzed with the objective of summarizing existing collections from the 2015 earthquake-affected districts. After the establishment of NAGRC, a total of 8,500 accessions were collected from 62 districts of the country during 2010-2015. Among them, 1,852accessions of 40 crops had been collected and kept in medium and long term conservations of NAGRC before 2015 earthquake from 13 districts that are severely and moderately affected by the 2015 mega-earthquake. Farmers from other similar areas can easily get access to the seeds of these germplasm from genebank and deploy new diversity to their areas.