Volume 14 | Issue 5
Volume 14 | Issue 5
Volume 14 | Issue 5
Volume 14 | Issue 5
Volume 14 | Issue 5
The dairy industry in our country accounts for 4% of the country’s GDP and provides a source of income and livelihood to a significant proportion of country’s population. The sector currently provides income and employment to over 2 million people across the dairy value chain. The dairy farmers, who are mostly smallholder farmers, rely on local milk collection centres that manually records milk delivery transaction in some hardcopy inventory files, which are stored in their offices. These records have been susceptible to modifications and deletions by these centres to cut down on their payments to farmers. Thus, this project explores the potential use of blockchain technology in milk delivery among smallholder farmers in the rural areas in developing nations towards creating transparency, trustworthiness, and fairness in payment to these farmers. We seek to design a farmer centric blockchain based platform that ensures that farmers are protected from unscrupulous and predatory middlemen in the milk delivery chain that exploit the illiterate and the unsuspecting farmers. In general, all farmers will sell their milk to 3rd part brokers or IDA staff members, and they will record each farmer milk delivery in a manual inventory report or in computer excel or centralized server. All framers may be no or less educated so brokers may alter farmer milk deliver records and make less payment to farmers and steal money. To overcome from above issue, this work suggesting migrating such inventory to Blockchain based server where data storage is immutable which means data cannot be alter in any manner after storage. Blockchain is a decentralized network which store data in multiple nodes and if one node is down then it can retrieve data from other working nodes. Blockchain store each record as block or transaction and associate each block with hash code and before storing any new block then it will verify hash code of each old blocks and if all records verified successfully then only it will store new records. So, data alteration is impossible in Blockchain. Hence, by using Blockchain we can save farmers money stealing by brokers.