Blockchain Technology for Traceability Monitoring in Food Supply Chain

Food supply is the network of companies, individual activities and resources involved in the creation and delivery of food product to customers. The food supply include all the stages of the food process, from raw material acquisition to final delivery of the finished food product. In Malaysia, food supply in a critical issue because the country is heavily reliant on food imports to meet its domestic demand. The factors influence the food supply in Malaysia are dependency on imports food, climate change, infrastructure and logistics, food safety and security and consumer demand. Based on this issues, fluctuate prices of poultry product are happened in Malaysia. In this study, blockchain technology is propose to solve the situation. Blockchain technology has the potential to change the food supply by providing a transparent, traceability, and security to the system for tracking and verifying the information and detail of the poultry product from the farm to the consumer table. Feature like traceability and transparent in blockchain can provide end-to-end traceability of poultry product, allowing consumers to track the entire journey information of the product from the farm to the retail store. Based on this feature, it can help prevent fraudulent document and manipulation price by identifying the original price state by government each stages in food supply.