Blockchain in Food safety! Create a 100% transparent production and sales resume.
【Published by Huang Bei Ru】
When it comes to the new technology trend in 2019, the “blockchain” is one of them. In the past, you may think that the blockchain is a bunch of virtual data, but in fact it is “not tamperable” and “shareable”. Already used in the food safety profile, Taiwan startups collaborated with Taitung Chihshang and COA Young Farmers to collect the information on the agricultural products of each rice from the planting to the table through sensors-plant rice with blockchain technology. Technology is leading the world, so as Taiwan blockchain applications- Taitung Chihshang rice has boarded on Financial Times.
Kids: “Come on, come on, pull the carrot.”
They stepped on the dirt, holding organic fertilizer in their hands, and sprinkled them on the ground.
COA Young Farmers’ Wei Rui Ting vs. kids: “We will average it and sprinkle it in our rice fields, come, come down, come down, come down, hurry up, come, hurry, hurry, sprinkle evenly little bit, let’s distract a bit. In June, you all need to come back to see the seedlings result do you know that.”
We follow these children’s footsteps, walk into the fields, feel the soil temperature, learn how to grow rice, but the agriculture education for young farmers is not only this.
COA Young Farmers’ vs. kids: “Now I’m gonna teaches you guys how to make a lunch box. Hey, your lunch box is too full you won’t be able to cover it.”
Reporter Huang Bei Ru vs. Children: “Who else wants me to take a look, it’s meat, all meat? you put a lot of meat, where’s the rice?”
This is a fun movement of letting children to know what they are “fertilizing” is the rice they eaten daily, and Taishang’s Chihshang rice has a new initiative to introduce blockchain technology into traditional rice cultivation.
Reporter Huang Bei Ru: “We took the first flight to Taitung, the hometown of rice in Taiwan. Today we are gonna talk about blockchain in food safety. When it comes to blockchain, what the audience thinks may be the use of virtual currency. However, this technology can be use in food security. Like the large 15 hectares of farmland behind me, it is growing Taitung’s Chihshang rice. It will be transplanted on January 15 and will be arranged in the farmland in the future. Farmer use a sensor in the process of planting, including measuring and recording the pH value of the soil, as well as the temperature and humidity in the air, will be recorded in the sensor and included in the label of production and sales history.”
Every process of the work is recorded in the blockchain database, but on the day we visited, the sensor seemed to has a little problem.
Owlting founder Darren Wang vs. Engineering staff: “Click it, click it, click it, click it, then you…yes I pressed, I pressed, I had follow what you said, but something seems not right. Look the data on January 2, the URL above shows the number of 12, 12:01, (reporter: so how long it will be recorded once in a while?), once every two minutes, this is a bit abnormal, can you see it? (You said this one, this one is not), 0, so there is a problem here, the soil moisture is 0.”
Abnormal data recorded through the blockchain, has long been recorded in the cloud database.
Owlting founder Darren Wang vs. COA Young Farmers’ Wei Rui Ting : “When are you going to the release water, it should be almost the same, this has already begun, the time should start from this afternoon to tomorrow, the data will upload to there. See? There’s the information that I received, it’s all on my phone now.”
COA Young Farmers’ Wei Rui Ting: “We can upload data onto the block, on to the cloud in anytime, anywhere, because it has the characteristics that cannot be tampered, so we check the farming process of your product. When you see it, those data has no way to change it.”
Blockchain, literally translates, is a block, chained together, using a decentralized algorithm to record block data, just like a large network account, it can not be tampering, The characteristics of message encryption, corresponding to the application of food production and marketing, can be: seedling, planting, growing, harvesting, shipping, dispensing and selling. These processes can be independently recorded through the blockchain, allowing the ingredients to be traced. It is more convenient to track the production and sales process, and the data is more transparent and digital.
COA Young Farmers’ Wei Rui Ting: “Because it is a micro-environmental monitoring, the varieties suitable for this place may be concentrated in this block. If the government need to export our product, we have the chance to hit the best rice to the global, let Taiwan’s best product enter the international market in the future.”
Chihshang rice enters the harvest period of the first stage of rice cultivation, and the rice ears that dance with the wind are intertwined into golden rice waves, and the harvested wet valleys are processed.
Chen Zheng Hong, the third-generation person in charge of Rice mill vactory: “The first pass is to remove impurities, the second pass is to remove the shell, (warm temperature), yes, its temperature is probably higher than our usual mixed temperature, about 10 Degree to 12 degrees.”
Chen Zheng Hong, the third-generation head of the rice mill, said: “At present, its weight is 604.4. At present, the first-class rice in our country is 560, so it is much higher than 560.”
Reporter Huang Bei Ru: “The process time that wet cereals become white rice need at least 4 to 6 processing links, and the white rice selected will be loaded into the big bag next to me, the weight of each bag is one ton. In addition to the national standard, these white rice have also entered the blockchain, and all the information is inside the mobile phone.
Owlting founder Darren Wang: “It is more difficult to say that we put different materials on the same production resume, we can mix different factors, different producers’ information, on a production resume. Yes, so it will become valuable because traditionally there is no way to connect them together.”
The introduction of blockchain technology into the rice planting industry has also attracted the attention of the Financial Times and sent people to Taiwan for an exclusive interview. However, domestically want to promote the food safety blockchain, in addition to the challenges of soft and hard construction, farmers also It also requires “re-education.”
COA Young Farmers’ Ling Jian Zhong: “My reaction is, what is this? What’s more, the so-called blockchain must be imported. You have to go online to log in. You have to learn to operate. Computers are good. Some old people are actually on the record. It has a lot of problems, so this must be done by our younger generation and then lead them to do it together.”
The integration of the old and new generations is still a part of the transformation of agriculture, but for the new generation of young farmers, the use of technology to activate traditional industries, the new thinking of blockchain is no stranger.
COA Young Farmers’ Ling Jian Zhong: “We have been talking about the industry must be upgraded. In fact, blockchain need or no need to be imported depends on the data we get. We can use the data to analysis if it’s raw or cooked.”
The horror of rice and vernal equinox grows. Blockchain in the past, through the environmental data, we created a new “technical peasant calendar” and used the blockchain to track food. It has also become a new trend in global food safety. US retail giant Walmart, after September 2019, also moved the vegetable supply chain to the blockchain to control food safety. Alibaba’s “anti-food fraud blockchain platform” also entered the pilot phase, the US technology giant IBM also cooperated with Carrefour to use the food production and marketing blockchain technique to carry out the “Food Trust” program. Blockchain technology is increasingly used in food security industry.
Reporter Huang Bei Ru: “Just scan the QR Code on the label, production history of the food will immediately appare. Like the chicken in my hand, it is from Nantou, and the verification unit is the Agricultural Science and Technology Research Institute. In fact, it is not only meat, but also vegetables and eggs. Everything that we eat have their own production resumes, such food safety blockchains technology have been used widely in the sales side of the store.”
The production and sales process of a small pepper in the store also can be recorded. Blockchain is combined with the Internet of Things. It is used in food traceability. Every recorded link needs to be built, although it will reflect the price, but in fact It is also a kind of “user pays” situation. Consumers are willing to eat more based on the safety information we provide, other than that, this technology can increase the economic value of agricultural products.
Ge Rou, Simple Mart public relations spokesperson said: “In fact, consumers are really willing to understand what they eat into the body, where is it from, and even when it is packaged, or from which place of origin, It will make these proportions even more important.”
Through the blockchain technology, the production process can be recorded. This new technology also known as the “Next Generation Internet”, will become the perfect solution to the food safety problem in the future.
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