A blockchain-based framework to make the citrus crop supply chain transparent and reliable in agriculture
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2024
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UMT Lahore
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Products such as Citrus vinegar, Citrus noodles, Citrus bread, and Citrus flour are made from Citrus, a vital crop for human nutrition and health. With more people worried about the safety of the food they eat, the citrus industry's supply chain has come into the spotlight. Furthermore, farmers can lose out on income from citrus crops even when they work tirelessly due to supply chain malpractices. Governments might potentially suffer huge financial losses as a result, especially during the off-seasons when citrus imports become costly. These problems stem from the Citrus supply chain's unreliability, lack of trust, transparency, and security. Our study introduces a Blockchain-based framework that can improve the Citrus crop supply chain in terms of security, integrity, reliability, and transparency. This will allow for full traceability of the crop from farm to fork. The Citrus Coin (CC) is a new cryptocurrency that will make it easier to record transactions between all parties involved across the Citrus supply chains. A crypto wallet, an economic model, and an ICO for the CC are all part of the suggested framework. We built a system for transaction processing that uses smart contracts to make citrus crop tracking and transparency easier, and to convert CC to fiat money. Additionally, to improve data security, openness and availability, we suggest using the Interplanetary File Systems (IPFS, which are) to store encrypted data of businesses, retailers, and farmers. Our suggested framework outperforms current supply chain solutions in terms of WI performance, as shown experimentally. This is especially true when looking at metrics like new block latency, average gas cost per transaction, and transaction verification time. Blockchain technology, supply chain management, smart contracts, citrus fruit, transparency and traceability, and food safety are all related terms.