Lao PDR - the "crown jewel" in rice biodiversity project

Box 2. Countries involved in the SDC Biodiversity Project, number of rice germplasm samples collected, and number of samples deposited at the International Rice Genebank at IRRI during the 1995-98 period. Samples collected and stored in 1999 are still being tallied.

	No. of samples collected		No. of samples received at IRG
Participants	Cultivated	Wild species	Cultivated	Wild species
Asia
Bangladesh	463	31	346	21*
Bhutan	428	0	154	0
Cambodia	1,639	1,097	2,054*	1,102*
Indonesia	583	2	297	0
Lao PDR	12,320	236	10,096	213
Malaysia	1,046	9	500
Myanmar	1,200	43	740	0
Nepal	98	74	98	74
Philippines	709	13	362	4
Thailand	1,876	63	601	20
Vietnam	2,200	50	724	0
Latin America
Costa Rica	-	200	0	0
Africa
Kenya	0	62	0	0
Madagascar	418	15	334	12
Malawi	3	54	0	0
Mozambique	78	31	0	17
Namibia	0	17	0	17
Swaziland	1	26	0	8
Tanzania	0	22	0	0
Uganda	0	15	0	9
Zambia	0	18	0	15
Zanzibar	5	41	0	0
Zimbabwe	0	12	0	0
Total	23,067	2,139	15,960	1,512

 

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