Top Industry Challenges
The agriculture and food industry is poised for disruption, as it must face the dual challenge of meeting a growing population’s needs and working under growing regulation and unpredictable climate conditions.
Feeding the World’s Growing Population
Producing Higher Yields and Reducing Waste
Supporting Smallholder Farmers
Improving Food Traceability to Drive Safety and Build Consumer Trust
Bolstering Financial Systems
Improving Land Management and Registration Systems
Protected Pricing to Buffer from Price Volatility
Driving more Effective Subsidies
Dealing with an Unpredictable Climate
Using Tech to Protect Farms from Natural Disasters
Improving Insurance for Agricultural Enterprises
Adopting Sustainable Practices without Losing Productivity (e.g. Precision Fertilizer to limit Nitrogen use)
Efficiently Integrating New Technology
Integrate New Farm Management Software (FMS) with Legacy Systems
Accelerate a Slow Adoption Curve
Building a Database to enable Data-Driven Decision Making
BlockApps’ STRATO platform is a blockchain solution uniquely equipped to build a productive, efficient, and sustainable network for the agriculture and food industry.
Agriculture Blockchain Solutions & Resources
Bayer CropScience’s Work on the Agricultural Supply Chain with STRATO
Bayer CropScience uses TraceHarvest to track its grain product from origin to end using STRATO. Read more about the seed traceability initiative.
BlockApps’ Track and Trace Application
Track and trace is a generic asset tracking application that can be installed on a STRATO blockchain network.
Track and trace comes with a built in “widget” asset that can represent any physical good (e.g. grain, food, or livestock) OR digital/financial asset (e.g. loan, payout, or subsidy) as a smart contract.
BlockApps’ Track and Trace application can build traceable end-to-end supply chains for agriculture, which would drive food safety, traceability, consumer trust, and create industry standards. It can also, through its smart contracts, track and automate the movements financial or digital assets such as subsidies, providing the oversight to ensure precise and proper application of such goods.
Top Industry Solutions
Digitize Sustainability Reporting
For sustainability reporting to produce effective reports and set impactful targets, companies need complete, granular, and accessible data.
Traceability & SCM for Agriculture
The agricultural supply chain is convoluted, complex, and lacks any form of traceability, creating a significant consumer trust deficit and inefficiencies for all stakeholders.
Parametric Crop Insurance
Crop insurance processes are costly for all stakeholders, and unequipped to face increasingly frequent and unpredictable agricultural losses.
Agricultural Land Reclamation
Land reclamation is a great solution to fertilizer's mining footprint, however, it relies on huge amounts of accurate and granular soil data to be effective.
Efficient Fertilizer Application
Fertilizer application is not generating the returns it needs to, with challenges such as incomplete data driving a yield deficit of 15-20% and growing resource waste.
Fertilizer Subsidy Payments
The $25 billion that the USDA allocates to fertilizer subsidy payments does not always reach its intended effect, with frequent misallocation, delays, and inefficiencies.
Protected Food Pricing
The agriculture and food industry is sensitive to political and economic conditions and therefore inherently volatile, with increasingly frequent and dramatic price changes.
Farm Management Software
Integrating farm management software with pervasive traditional systems is a complicated task, slowing adoption and limiting the industry's growth.
STRATO for Agricultural Supply Chain Management (SCM)
BlockApps Agriculture Partner Network
BlockApps’ extensive partner network includes various agriculture, food, and AgTech companies whose expertise combines to leverage blockchain solutions for all interested enterprises.
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