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GREECE 1969. FAO Wheat Exploration Mission 
July 1969. Greece. Miss Bennett making notes in her field book. All details of wheat samples taken are noted in field books with numbered pages. Collected samples are placed in cotton bags and numbered by detaching numbered strips from field book pages. 
07/01/1969 
Country or Territory Greece
Credit ©FAO/Florita Botts 
UNFAO Source FAO Photo Library
File size 8.42 MB 
Unique ID UF213TM 
Editorial use only. Photo credit must be given. For further information contact: Photo-Library@fao.org 
Background Information In July 1969, Erna Bennett, Genetic Conservation and Information
Specialist from the Crop Ecology and Genetic Resources Branch of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), carried out a mission in Greece searching for and collecting primitive wheat varieties native to the mountains and valleys of that country. These primitive wheat races are
one of the world's richest storehouses of the genetic characteristics that
plant breeders require. They will build desirable characteristics from crops as old as agricultural man, like building blocks, into new high-yielding varieties. But old races are being swamped by the spread of modern varieties, and in certain areas - and in the case of certain crops - emergency measures
are necessary to collect these old races before they disappear completely.
FAO and other leading international crop improvement organizations are
increasingly concerned with the conservation of primitive crop races, in whose amazing diversity hides the promise of better crops to come.