FIELD TO MARKET

Abstract

Major issue in the Agri supply chain is the continuous and multi-flow of agricultural produce. It is observed that there is an irregularity in the flow of Agri-produced is caused due to poor harvest techniques or a sudden increase in demand for a particular product caused by the sudden change in climatic conditions. The developed model thus results in, planning a farm model from harvesting till reaching the consumer. It is observed that the type of transportation network to access and packaging of the Agri product also depends on the distance of the marketplace from the point of production. The distance between the farm and distribution centres often plays a important role in determining the market price of the produce. Thus, the model will enable us to determine the type of transportation, packaging, and storage facilities to be availed by farmers to minimize the farm cost. However, the model focuses only the management of perishable product, the study can be further extended to inculcate both perishable and non perishable products simultaneously. We can understand from the Project report that the integration of blockchain, AI, and IoT in agriculture can be still considered as implementation stage as the existing scenario mainly constitutes assumptions and pre-considered studies with little accurate systems procured and its implementation in agriculture sector still has a prototype level. Pushed by the solutions Block technology are offering such as reliability, transparency, security and effective decision support systems for all supply chain management operations, the report shows Agri-Supply Chain Management -Block Chain architecture to look into and solve various issue pertaining to storage and scalability, optimization, make use of information, security and privacy issues, and with existing single-chain agriculture supply chain systems. As it includes various key players at different levels and diverse parties it mandatory to process and develop a trustworthy blockchain-based system. Implementation should be such that it should ensure that it should be resource-efficient, appropriate, less-complex, provide exchange and make use of information.