The volume of rice produced around the world has created a need for a robust system that can track paddy through its journey in the supply chain to ensure safety and security and promote sustainable and climate resilient food production through blockchain traceability solutions.
Farmers need to have access to high quality seeds to enhance crop production and parameters like seed purity, germination percentage and moisture content are critical. The inadequate information in seed production and processing, the malicious mixing of quality seeds with spurious ones and the manual-based record keeping has triggered the need for digital traceability solutions in the seed sector
Traceability and Transparency are very important in the cotton supply chain to achieve sustainability in the textile and fashion industry. To ensure a sustainable supply chain, the brands ought to know where their product came from, under what conditions they were manufactured, who created them, and the impact on the environment.
Nutraceuticals are products derived from food sources that provide both nutritional and medicinal benefits. They could be referred to as nutritional or herbal supplements. Ashwagandha and Curcumin are the leading contributors to the manufacture of nutraceuticals. Complete transparency in the nutraceutical supply chain as consumers have the right to know the farm-to-bottle story of the product so that they can make informed choices of buying the product.
Bananas are one of the most favorite, popular and cheapest fruits in the world. The banana supply chain is fragmented and needs to conform to quality standards for the export market. The demand for consumer food safety, provenance, validation of certifications and transparency in the supply chain has triggered the need for traceability solutions in the banana supply chain
The food safety challenges, hygienic practices and the aflatoxin and pesticide issues are impeding exporters to satisfy the requirements of destination markets for spices. Traceability in the spice value chain is the solution to boost consumer satisfaction and enhance the sustainable growth of the spice sector. Digital platforms capturing the barn to bottle story of these spices will bring visibility and transparency to these value chains.
Maize assumes great importance in the agribusiness value chain globally. There is an ever-growing demand from various segments catering to food and non-food usage of maize. Capture the farm to mill story of maize with Blockchain traceability
There are some hot issues grappling the dairy industry. Setting up a safe, hygienic, transparent and economic dairy supply chain is a major challenge in the food and agriculture industry. Dairy traceability with blockchain technology should ensure transparency in the supply chain and assure a zero adulterated safe product.
The fruit and vegetable supply chain is complex with an increasing demand for food safety and sustainable practices. They account for more than 10% sales in a super market of a country with their short product life being a major challenge. Supply chain digitization with Traceability is the right solution.
The bean to bar chocolate story is a bumpy one and has many hidden facts. Discover how traceability helps the cocoa supply chain to conquer its bitter sweet challenges.
The COVID-19 pandemic has shed light on a number of fissures prevalent in our current food ecosystem. Digitizing the supply chains with blockchain traceability solutions will build resilience in the food and agriculture sector with adequate food safety.
Consumers are making dietary shifts towards sustainable and reliable products due to disease outbreaks and food contamination. Blockchain based traceability solutions deliver a digital footprint of the product and assure compliance to quality standards.
The increasing demand for consumer awareness on food safety, low environmental impact, and better animal welfare has spurned the advent of poultry traceability. Blockchain solutions drive supply chain transparency by tracing the journey of the entire product from the farm to the plate.
Disruption in fish production, new regulations, and increasing consumer demand for safe products has made the seafood supply chain traceability the new norm with blockchain solutions.
The problems faced by Seafood industry, one of the world’s first and largest commercial enterprises in the food industry are overfishing, illegal, unreported, unregulated (IUU) fishing, and bycatch. Emerging solutions in blockchain-based food traceability address these practices.
India’s extensive agricultural network makes it one of the largest seed markets in the world, with an estimated value of $ 3.6 billion in 2017 and a 17% annual growth rate during 2010-2017, according to Research and Markets. The main challenges in the Indian seed market are the unorganized seed supply chains that compromise the seed health during its transportation and the market for fake seeds. By leveraging blockchain for agriculture management, traceability solutions focus on reinforcing market confidence in seed quality.
Coffee, one of the world’s favorite beverages, has been around for centuries. Every bean has a story, and we owe our consumers to know about the journey from the bean to their cups. The coffee value chain is very complex involving many processes and various players involved. Traceability allows companies to track and record the movement of produce through every production stage, from cultivation to the end consumer, through blockchain technology solutions.
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