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If Cormac McCarthy‘s post-apocolyptic vision in the novel The Road ever comes to pass, survivors may still be able to enjoy New Mexico chile with their meager meals.
Tsile chile seeds, grown by traditional farmers at the Ohkay Owinge Pueblo in northern New Mexico, will be added to Norway’s Svalbard Global Seed Vault this week, the Global Crop Diversity Trust announced Monday.
The seeds were handed over by Sen. Tom Udall, who was part of a delegation of U.S. lawmakers delivering seeds to the vault.
“In New Mexico, our distinctive red and green chile peppers not only define our cuisine, they also symbolize our state’s unique cultural heritage and the livelihoods of generations who have called it home,” Udall said. “I’m very pleased that we are saving New Mexico’s most deliciously famous crop in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault.”
Chile will be one of 537 latest seed varieties added to the vault, which already contains seeds from 525,000 food plant varieties.
Opened in 2008 on the Norwegian island of Spitsbergen, the vault is intended to prevent the loss of valuable food crop varieties and the genetic diversity they represent, and to ensure the recovery of regional and global food supplies after a global catastrophe.
The so-called “doomsday” seed vault is a backup repository to ensure that crop seeds would not be lost even if regional seed banks around the world were destroyed.
The vault is funded by western governments, the World Bank and the Rockefeller Foundation, among other bodies.
