damage in puerto rico farmers had lost their crops and they had no seeds to replant the university of parental rico distributed free seeds from its seed bank to small scale farmers and community gardens jumpstarting new crop production similarly in malaysia rice paddies were almost completely wiped out during the 2004 tsunami how did farmer start over seed by x. on the down side keeping seeds alive for hundreds of years can be a challenge seeds degrade over time and it's difficult to predict how long they will last so seed banks need to constantly monitor a seed germination potential or in other words its ability to grow. this fire bad global seed vault set in norway's arctic permafrost is one of the world's largest seed banks it has over a 1000000 seeds from all over the globe. almost 50 percent of in. forces engaged in agriculture this means new solutions are required to protect their livelihood and future profit with the help of sustainable practices a new company which means farming is. the solution to reduce the crop by providing farmers with. i took out a loan from the bank for the 2nd time i