Title
AGWS: Blockchain-enabled Small-scale Farm Digitization
Abstract
Farm records hold the static, temporal, and longitudinal details of the farms. For small-scale farming, the ability to accurately capture these records plays a critical role in formalizing and digitizing the agriculture industry. A trusted exchange of these records could unlock critical insights to different stakeholders across the value chain. Recently, there has been increasing attention on digitizing small scale farming with the goal of increasing farm-level transparency and visibility, access to credit, etc. using these farm records. However, most solutions proposed so far have the shortcoming of providing granular and trusted small-scale farm digitization. To address these challenges, we present a system, called AG-Wallet System(AGWS), which leverages blockchain to formalize the interactions and data flow in small-scale farming ecosystem. Utilizing instrumentation of farm tractors, we demonstrate the ability to utilize farm activities to create trusted electronic field records (EFR). Using AGWS, we processed over one hundred thousand small-scale farm-level activity events for which we also performed automated farm boundary detection of several farms.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1109/ICBC48266.2020.9169450
2020 IEEE International Conference on Blockchain and Cryptocurrency (ICBC)
Keywords
DocType
ISBN
blockchain,small-scale farming,digitization,electronic farm record
Conference
978-1-7281-6681-0
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Bore Nelson100.34
Andrew Kinai2134.36
Waweru Peninah300.34
Wambugu Isaac400.34
Juliet Mutahi5153.48
Kemunto Everlyne600.34
Reginald E. Bryant7133.72
Komminist Weldemariam815427.27