On April 10, 2025, employees of Valmeco AS, a company that manufactures straight beams, visited the Rural Science Centre in Jõgeva. Külli Annamaa, Head of the Genebank, introduced the activities of the Genebank in preserving genetic resources.
In a world where climate change is threatening our farming systems with extreme weather and new diseases and pests, most of our food comes from crops such as wheat, rice and maize.
Participants of the international heritage plant project "Communities for Climate" from the Peipsimaa Cooperation Centre and members of the Kasepää Folk House club "Meemen" visited the Rural Science Centre and the gene bank.
From 30 September to 2 October, the 10th conference of the PeaceLife movement took place in Brandenburg and Berlin, Germany. FriedensBrot e.V., a non-profit organisation set up in Germany, is the initiator and main coordinator of this citizens' initiative.
We will make information on the genetic resources of conserved agricultural crops available to the public.
A meeting of the Working Group on Documentation and Information of the European Co-ordinated Programme on Plant Genetic Resources (ECPGR) was held in Tallinn on 18-19 September.