Vrihi, Basudha

Vrihi is the name of Deb's rice seed bank.  He has 670+ types of rice that he painstakingly grows on his one and a half acre farm each year.  Thus, each grain evolves appropriately each year and remains viable.  He has rice that can grow in the dessert, rice that can grow in salt water, which he gave to some southern farmers after a typhoon, their genetically modified rice kaput, also two and three grain rice.  It's the largest seed bank in the world.  14,000 years ago humans domesticated rice and 5,000 different types of rice followed.  Now farmers, once convinced by the names of genetically modified rice (High Yeild Variety) are left with Monsanto's few weak, unstable varieties.
     Monsanto (the American company that ruined America first) broke into Vrihi but to no avail, the number code system kept them from getting away with anything.
     At Basudha, Deb impresses local farmers by growing rice without irrigation or pesticides.  They've all forgotten the original ways of doing it since industrialization has taken over.  He seems to have a good crew of locals volunteering and learning from him though.
     I'm eager to learn whether there is an American equivalent.