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Article: Vegetable Gardens to Sustain Tsunami Recovery Effort.
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- February 22, 2005
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OXNARD, Calif. -- At the request of AVRDC - The World Vegetable Center in Thailand, seed firm Seminis has donated nearly 70,000 packets of vegetable seed to support a tsunami recovery effort aimed at supplementing food supplies with garden-grown vegetables.
The seeds will be included in about 25,000 garden kits of farm tools, irrigation supplies, fertilizer and technical instructions destined for families in Sri Lanka and Indonesia, according to organizers at AVRDC. Although arable land is scarce in the tsunami-affected areas, vegetables can be grown successfully on small parcels. Local markets are also available for families to sell their surplus food. The kits ...