Agriculture Blockchain
About this ebook
The challenges in agriculture are rapidly increasing with the impact of climate change, land degradation and natural disasters. This is affecting the global food production and supply chain which has been aggravated due to Covid-19 pandemic and this calls for more resilient and sustainable food systems. The Asia-Pacific region which has the largest number of small holder farmers and is trying to meet the sustainable development goals of United Nations has lot of responsibilities to mitigate the challenges. In this scenario Blockchain Technology has come as a respite to contribute as one of the ways to mitigate the challenges. The benefits of Blockchain in agriculture include easy and cheap food batch recalls in case of emergencies, availability of the complete history of the product status, increased customer trust and loyalty, fairer payments, approved vendors, and proper compliance management. The global blockchain in agriculture and food supply chain market size estimated at USD 133 million in 2020 is expected to reach USD 948 million by 2025. Factors such as the increasing need to lower operational costs in financial transactions and the reduction of the number of layers required for data sharing and risk management and the regulatory compliances that automate and conduct only authorized transactions are driving the technology adoption.
The key drivers to blockchain in agriculture and food supply chain market are an increase in demand for the agricultural produce output surge, the use of smart agriculture among the growers or producers, government initiatives to support modern techniques that can be used in agriculture, and rising concerns for food safety among the consumers driving the increase in demand for the transparency in the supply chain. Increase in the popularity of blockchain among retailers/ distributors is due to rise in the tracking and tracing of various food products. Data management and data aggregation are major challenges in the precision farming market. The lack of standardization of the communication interfaces and protocols may result in the misrepresentation of the data.
The present volume is intended to collate the information on the status of blockchain in the Asian region with various case studies. APAARIRI is grateful to its member the International Association of Agricultural Sustainability for joining hands in this venture and sincerely acknowledge all the contributors for their excellent chapters on various aspects of blockchain. We also acknowledge the support of Dr KS Varaprasad in his meticulous support in editing of the chapters. We also hope that the present volume will bring more awareness on the status and challenges of blockchain technology in the region to various stakeholders and may help in increased application of the technology.
--Ravi Khetarpal, Executive Secretary, APAARI
[Contents]
Foreword
Foreword
Preface
Preface
Chapter 1: Halal Supply Chain 4.0 with Big Data and Blockchain
- Rika Ampuh Hadiguna
Chapter 2: The Application of Blockchain in Food Safety, Production and Marketing: Taiwan Perspective
- Tzong-Ru Lee / Lee-Chung Chen
Chapter 3: The Challenges of Agricultural Blockchain: A Review of Policy Steering and Actions in Thailand
- Nirote Sinnarong / Olalekan Israel Aiikulola / Thanakorn Sirisugandha
Chapter 4: Using Block Chain & Internet of Things (IoT) in Agri-Food Supply Chain Traceability
- Lin Jun
Chapter 5: Blockchain Technology for Inclusive Development of Agrarian Rural Economy
- Sharbendu Banerjee
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About the author
Rika Ampuh Hadiguna
Dr Rika Ampuh Hadiguna is a Professor of the Industrial Engineering Department at Andalas University, Indonesia. Research interest in the fields of supply chain management for complex problems.
Tzong-Ru Lee
Dr Tzong-Ru Lee is the Professor of the Marketing department at National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan. He is also the Chairman of International Association for Agricultural Sustainability (IAAS) and the Editor-in-Chief of the journal IJAITITG. He specializes in the fields of Internet Marketing and E-Commerce, Service Management and Marketing, Nonprofit Marketing, Industrial Marketing, Corporate Strategy, Competitive Dynamics, Product and Brand Management, Technology and Innovation, and Supply Chain Management.
Lee-Chung Chen
Lee-Chung Chen is the Research Fellow of Digital Transformation Research Institute, Institute for Information Industry, Taiwan. He specializes in the fields of Cloud Computing, Blockchain, DevOps, Data Exchange System, and tack and tracing for the Food Supply Chain.
Nirote Sinnarong
Nirote Sinnarong graduated with a Ph.D. in Applied Economics from the Department of Applied Economics, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan with 2008 Taiwan Scholarship. He is an assistant professor in Department of Applied Economics, Maejo University in Thailand. His researches mainly focused on Agricultural economics, Economics of climate change, Applied statistics for business and Applied econometrics for agriculture. His articles have been published in International Journal of Global Warming, Managing Global Transitions International Research Journal, International Journal of Services and Standards, and International Journal of Enterprise Network Management, etc. He is also on the editorial board of International Journal of Agriculture Innovation, Technology and Globalisation (IJAIT G).
Olalekan Israel Aiikulola
Olalekan Israel Aiikulola holds a Masters in Applied Economics and is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in the same field at Maejo University, under the Faculty of Economics. He works as a Education Officer at Maejo University International College (MJU-IC), Maejo University, Thailand. His researches focus on Agricultural Economics, Economics of Climate Change, and Macro-Economic stability, trends, and growth.
Thanakorn Sirisugandha
Thanakorn Sirisugandha graduated with a Ph.D. in Administrative Science in 2010 from Maejo University, Thailand, received a scholarship from the Thai government. He is an Assistant Professor in the field of Business Administration, Lampang Rajabhat University in Thailand. His research mainly focuses on Organizational Management, Community Management, Community Enterprise, Public Policy and Public Administration.
Lin Jun
Dr Lin Jun received his Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He is currently the founder and CEO of HzzLink (Beijing) Network Technology Co., Ltd.; Professor and IP expert of China National Software and Integrated Circuit Promotion Center (CSIP) of Ministry of Industry and Information Technology; Senior Research Scientist of Alibaba-NTUTU Singapore Joint Research Institute; Senior Research Fellow of the Joint NTU -UBC Research Centre of Excellence in Active Living for the Elderly (LILY); Senior Research Fellow of Sino-Singapore International Joint Research Institute; Senior Member of China Computer Society (CCF); IEEE CS and ACM Member; Executive Member of Association for Crowd Science and Engineering (ACE). His current research interests include Blockchain, LPWAN IoT Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Software Engineering, and their applications on smart city, smart agriculture, smart home, and smart health.
Sharbendu Banerjee
Sharbendu Banerjee is an International Development professional in the area of Information and Communication Technology (ICT). He has worked with the Food and Agriculture Organization of United Nations (FAO) as Technology and Innovation Expert, with Center for Agriculture and Bioscience International (CABI) an intergovernmental organization, where he led development projects on ICT in agriculture in Asia and Africa, as Global Director and as business manager in telecom and consumer industry. He has also been an independent consultant with ITU , in various digital agriculture projects. Sharbendu Banerjee founded an Agtech company in India by the name MGINNE, which specializes in developing technology solutions for emerging and rural markets.
