Blockchain-Based Traceability and Visibility for Agricultural Products: A Decentralized Way of Ensuring Food Safety in India

Deepak Prashar, Nishant Jha, Sudan Jha, Yongju Lee and Gyanendra Prasad Joshi
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Deepak Prashar: Department of CSE, Lovely Professional University, Punjab 144411, India
Nishant Jha: Department of CSE, Lovely Professional University, Punjab 144411, India
Sudan Jha: Department of CSE, Lovely Professional University, Punjab 144411, India
Yongju Lee: School of CSE, Kyungpook National University, Daegu 702-701, Korea
Gyanendra Prasad Joshi: Department of CSE, Sejong University, Seoul 05006, Korea

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 8, 1-20

Abstract: The globalization of the food supply chain industry has significantly emerged today. Due to this, farm-to-fork food safety and quality certification have become very important. Increasing threats to food security and contamination have led to the enormous need for a revolutionary traceability system, an important mechanism for quality control that ensures sufficient food supply chain product safety. In this work, we proposed a blockchain-based solution that removes the need for a secure centralized structure, intermediaries, and exchanges of information, optimizes performance, and complies with a strong level of safety and integrity. Our approach completely relies on the use of smart contracts to monitor and manage all communications and transactions within the supply chain network among all of the stakeholders. Our approach verifies all of the transactions, which are recorded and stored in a centralized interplanetary file system database. It allows a secure and cost-effective supply chain system for the stakeholders. Thus, our proposed model gives a transparent, accurate, and traceable supply chain system. The proposed solution shows a throughput of 161 transactions per second with a convergence time of 4.82 s, and was found effective in the traceability of the agricultural products.

Keywords: Ethereum smart contracts; blockchain; traceability; visibility; throughput; supply chain; IPFS (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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