A Theoretical Implementation: Agriculture-Food Supply Chain Management using Blockchain Technology

Abstract

The traceability of Agriculture food supply chain management is important to ensure the food safety. It also increases the customer satisfaction and peer-to-peer productivity. The centralized data storage makes it more difficult to assure quality, rate and origin of the products. So we are in need of a decentralized system where transparency is available which makes people from the producers to consumers satisfaction. Blockchain technology, which is a digital technology that allows us to acquire traceability and transparency in the supply chain. Making use of this technology actually improves the community between different stakeholders and farmers. The properties of blockchain essentially provides increased capacity, better security, immutability, minting, faster settlement and full traceability of stored transactions records. This paper presents a fully decentralized blockchain based traceability that enables to build blocks for agriculture that continuously integrate with IoT devices from provider to consumer. To implement, we introduced “Provider-Consumer Network” -a theoretical end to end food traceability application. The objective is to create distributed ledger that is accessible by all users in the network that in turn brings transparency.