Blockchain-Based Soybean Traceability in Agricultural Supply Chain
By Khaled Hamed Salah, Nishara Nizamuddin, Raja Jayaraman, M. A. Omar. IEEE Access, 2019
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The globalized production and the distribution of agriculture production bring a renewed focus on the safety, quality, and the validation of several important criteria in agriculture and food supply chains. The growing number of issues related to food safety and contamination risks has established an immense need for effective traceability solution that acts as an essential quality management tool ensuring adequate safety of products in the agricultural supply chain. Blockchain is a disruptive technology that can provide an innovative solution for product traceability in agriculture and food supply chains. Today’s agricultural supply chains are complex ecosystem involving several stakeholders making it cumbersome to validate several important criteria such as country of origin, stages in crop development, conformance to quality standards, and monitor yields. In this paper, we propose an approach that leverages the Ethereum blockchain and smart contracts efficiently perform business transactions for soybean tracking and traceability across the agricultural supply chain. Our proposed solution eliminates the need for a trusted centralized authority, intermediaries and provides transactions records, enhancing efficiency and safety with high integrity, reliability, and security. The proposed solution focuses on the utilization of smart contracts to govern and control all interactions and transactions among all the participants involved within the supply chain ecosystem. All transactions are recorded and stored in the blockchain’s immutable ledger with links to a decentralized file system (IPFS) and thus providing to all a high level of transparency and traceability into the supply chain ecosystem in a secure, trusted, reliable, and efficient manner.
Subfields: Food Science, Information Systems
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Citations in the corpus
- From Industry 4.0 to Agriculture 4.0: Current Status, Enabling Technologies, and Research Challenges (2020, background): “A blockchain-based smart contract approach for soybean traceability was proposed in [89].”
- When Blockchain Meets Supply Chain: A Systematic Literature Review on Current Development and Potential Applications (2020, background): “These papers serve as references for other applications in various industries, especially the agricultural sector [86], [87], [88].”
- A literature review of blockchain technology applications in supply chains: A comprehensive analysis of themes, methodologies and industries (2021, unknown): “…on primary industries, and agriculture has attracted the most attention, with studies on pork (George et al., 2019; Sander et al., 2018), soybeans (Salah et al., 2019), wine (Bencic et al., 2019), fresh food (Perboli et al., 2018), eggs (Bumblauskas et al., 2020), cereals (X. Zhang et al., 2020)…”
- Blockchain technology in supply chain operations: Applications, challenges and research opportunities (2020, unknown): “A solution can be developed for automated payments and proof of delivery where the parties are paid in cryptocurrencies automatically upon physical delivery of crops (Salah et al., 2019).”
- Blockchain-based food supply chain traceability: a case study in the dairy sector (2020, background): “…have proposed blockchain-enabled traceability mechanisms for tracking agricultural products (Casado-Vara et al. 2018; Li and Wang 2018; Lin et al. 2018; Borrero 2019; Hong et al. 2019; Salah et al. 2019; Surasak et al. 2019; Wang and Liu 2019; Xie and He 2019; Kamble, Gunasekaran, and Sharma 2020).”
- Blockchain in Agriculture Traceability Systems: A Review (2020, unknown): “A state-of-the-art analytical approach regarding the blockchain and smart contracts implementation in the agri-food supply chain is described by Khaled Salah et al. in their publication [31].”