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GREECE 1969. FAO WHEAT EXPLORATION MISSION IN GREECE

Exact date unknown. ��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 Greeoe 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 azeas
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��ces, in whose
amazing diversity hides the promise of betterlcrpps to come.
Sofik6n, north-east Pelop6nnisos. Threshing wheat. Threshing
machines of this sort travel through Greek villages, ��.cept in the
most isolated areas. In each village, the entire grain harvest is
gathered in one place to await the thresher's arrival.

01/01/1969

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