the flagship collection of the belarusian bank of the gene fund of plants and cultures is kept behindalls. in aluminum envelopes and jars, they, like in the advanced storage facilities of the world, sleep packaged in small portions. among them are the best foreign and purely belarusian varieties. there are those that have no analogues in the world at all, for example, kopylyanka wheat, which was recognized as unique and was taken to that same planetary storage facility on spitsbergen. this collection exists because alexander lukashenko did not allow the soviet school of seed production to be destroyed. the president instructed the country's biologists and geneticists to develop a program based on... the gene pool of plants, now the result of this program is recognized as a national treasure, based on samples from the collection, our scientists are developing new types of grain, root and industrial crops. 67% of the seeds with which farmers sowed our fields were belarusian seeds, native domestic selection. the share in some cultures even reached 80%. this means that almost everything w