Agrichain: A Blockchain-Based Food Supply Chain Management System

The food supply chain is extremely complex owing to the presence of multiple entities and the perishable nature of goods. In India, the infrastructure facilitating collaboration among stakeholders is very weak which leads to participants working in silos. The food supply chain needs sophisticated ways to gather, integrate and track data published by various stakeholders so as to function effectively and efficiently. Blockchain as a distributed digital ledger technology ensures transparency, traceability, and security, and has shown promise for easing food supply chain management problems. In this paper, we propose Agrichain: a Blockchain-based, low-cost Distributed Ledger Technology solution for the Indian food supply chain ecosystem with detailed design and specifications. The proposed system will enable various stakeholders to register for their specific roles in the supply chain and publish relevant information to the blockchain. This information will then be used to track and trace perishable goods as they move forward in the chain.