Digitization in agriculture leads to simplicity, transparency, and swiftness in the overall process among various distrusting stakeholders such as users (farmers, retailers, customers, wholesalers, etc.), agencies (banks, insurance companies, etc.), and regulators (assessors, surveyors, etc.). The traditional model of centralized digitization is prone to various issues including single point of failure, data integrity, and authorization. These concerns can be addressed through the adoption of Blockchain technology in the agriculture ecosystem which introduces transparency, reliability, immutability, and trust among the stakeholders. Recently, researchers have started proposing the theoretical model of Blockchain in the agriculture domain, however, very little work is available wherein the practical implementation of Blockchain is explored. In this research, we aim to propose a Blockchain-based prototype of our earlier work, viz. AgriOnBlock addresses the above-mentioned challenges and provides security and transparency without compromising performance. Parameters for performance have been measured for the primary two models of the proposal, viz., Product Chain Management and Insurance Management. For various stakeholders (manager, farmer, distributor, manager, retailer, and warehouse), for Product Chain Management, the average gas consumption is 69 k, transaction cost is 161 k and execution cost is 130 k whereas for Insurance Management, the average gas consumption is 196 k, transaction cost is 170 k and execution cost is 138 k. Results depict that the proposed model offers an option of interaction among various entities in the agriculture domain in a distributed fashion with security, transparency, and performance as key parameters to observe.

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A Lightweight and Local Blockchain Prototype Implementation for Agriculture Domain

  • Bela Shrimali,
  • Hiren Patel

摘要

Digitization in agriculture leads to simplicity, transparency, and swiftness in the overall process among various distrusting stakeholders such as users (farmers, retailers, customers, wholesalers, etc.), agencies (banks, insurance companies, etc.), and regulators (assessors, surveyors, etc.). The traditional model of centralized digitization is prone to various issues including single point of failure, data integrity, and authorization. These concerns can be addressed through the adoption of Blockchain technology in the agriculture ecosystem which introduces transparency, reliability, immutability, and trust among the stakeholders. Recently, researchers have started proposing the theoretical model of Blockchain in the agriculture domain, however, very little work is available wherein the practical implementation of Blockchain is explored. In this research, we aim to propose a Blockchain-based prototype of our earlier work, viz. AgriOnBlock addresses the above-mentioned challenges and provides security and transparency without compromising performance. Parameters for performance have been measured for the primary two models of the proposal, viz., Product Chain Management and Insurance Management. For various stakeholders (manager, farmer, distributor, manager, retailer, and warehouse), for Product Chain Management, the average gas consumption is 69 k, transaction cost is 161 k and execution cost is 130 k whereas for Insurance Management, the average gas consumption is 196 k, transaction cost is 170 k and execution cost is 138 k. Results depict that the proposed model offers an option of interaction among various entities in the agriculture domain in a distributed fashion with security, transparency, and performance as key parameters to observe.