Explanation:

About Svalbard Global Seed Vault

• It is the world’s largest secure seed bank located on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen in the remote Arctic Svalbard archipelago.
• The aim of the vault is to preserve a vast variety of crop seeds in the case of a doomsday event, calamity, climate change or national emergency.
• It is owned and administered by the Ministry of Agriculture and Food on behalf of the Kingdom of Norway.
• In April 2014, India made its first seed deposit to the Svalbard Global Seed Vault with one box of 25 accessions of pigeon pea.
• India has also established its own seed storage facility at Chang La in Ladakh.
• It was built jointly by the Defence Institute of High Altitude Research (DIHAR) and the National Bureau of Plant Genetic Resources (NBPGR) in 2010 under the aegis of Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO).