No. 1 Central Document Issued, Blockchain Becomes New Momentum of Digital Village Construction
Recently, No. 1 Central Document “Opinion Regarding Key Tasks in Completing Comprehensive Facilitation of Rural Vitalization” was issued.
“Opinion” stated that, greatly promote digital village construction, facilitate smart agricultural development, encourage integrated application between information technology and agricultural machinery with agronomy, strengthen digital literacy and technical training of farmer, empower public service of village via digital technology, boost expansion and coverage of “Internet + governance services” in village are required. Moreover, focus on solving actual problem, develop big data application scenarios of agriculture and rural, speed up in facilitating standardized establishment of digital village, research and formulate development evaluation index system and continuously carry out pilot project of digital village are also needed.
Meanwhile, in terms of strengthening county-level business system construction, “Opinion” proposed the importance of accelerating the implementation of “Internet plus” movement of agricultural products from rural areas to urban areas project, promoted the establishment of long-term stable relationship between production and marketing, while facilitating cold chain logistic service network to expand to rural areas.
Followed by the advancement of China in reaching target of powerful agricultural country and continuous increase in technology level, agricultural transformation is imminent, and digital village and smart agriculture have become an inevitable trend of future development. Under the foundation of comprehensive poverty alleviation, guidelines encouraged by the central government include how to increase farmer’s income and continuously promote rural vitalization, digital village and smart agriculture, while blockchain + agricultural traceability will definitely play an essential part in facilitating income increase in farmers and rural vitalization.
When Digital Village Meets Blockchain
According to “Outline of Digital Village Development Strategy”, digital village is an application accompanied by networking, informatization and digitalization during agriculture and rural economic social development, and also the agriculture and rural modernization development and transformation process produced internally followed by improvement of farmers in modern information skills. Therefore, digital village not only is a strategic orientation of rural vitalization, but also an important content during the establishment of digital China.
Currently, modern information skills with blockchain as representative have made astounding advance and shown great function in digital village construction. Through in-depth integration among agricultural production, operation, management service, decision making and so on in full industrial chain, modern information skills gradually eliminate data gap and asymmetrical information phenomenon so that agricultural information can make smart decision, save energy and produce efficiently, while making provision of service differentiation become possible. Moreover, blockchain also speeds up transformation of agricultural development method and continuously promotes modernization process of agriculture.
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As a chain data structure, blockchain technology’s distributed data storage, node-to-node transmission, consensus mechanism, encryption algorithm and smart contract characteristics ensure encrypted information cannot be tampered and counterfeited, thus it holds a potential and enormous application market in agriculture sector.
We can say that, meeting between digital village and blockchain creates an excellent bonding point:
For one thing, blockchain application will lay a strong foundation for digital village development and establish underlying layer of key technology for digital village construction;
On the other hand, in-depth facilitation of digital village can further develop blockchain application scenarios, continuously discover and enlarge its value, bring benefit to agriculture, increase profit of farmers and endow a deeper meaning to rural vitalization.
Applied Practice of Blockchain + Agricultural Traceability
On January 2022, Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs issued Typical Cases of Safety Monitoring and Law Enforcement on Agricultural Product Quality Year 2021 which listed the top 8 cases, including omethoate pesticide usage in eggplant plantation case, dimethoate pesticide usage in cowpea plantation case, isofenphos-methyl and isocarbophos pesticides usage in celery plantation case, agricultural product sales that incompatible with National Food Safety Standards case and etc. In another side, these cases also showed that quality safety of agricultural product still has a lot of work to do.
No. 1 Central Document issued this year also clearly stated that, breeding excellence of agricultural varieties, quality improvement, brand establishment and improvement action of standardized production are needed to be carried out. Furthermore, certification system of edible agricultural product standard reaching agreement shall be facilitated and quality safety traceability system of all industrial chain shall be improved.
We can say that, currently as people’s living standard gradually increases, agricultural products and quality safety of all industrial chain have received bigger attention from the society. However, due to limitation of traditional agricultural development, structural contradiction existed in quality safety of agricultural products nowadays shall not be neglected. For example, cross-regional and cross-border of long-distance spreading characteristic between place of origin and consumers causes consumers totally do not know about the agricultural product information, hence once safety quality issue occurred, it will normally result in an awkward situation whereby product source cannot be traced.
Advantages of blockchain’s traceability
Blockchain which possesses characteristics such as decentralized, smart contract, tamper-proof and so on is very compatible with circulation and traceability phase of agricultural product. Via full process recording of agricultural product in different phases like production, transportation, etc., blockchain technology ensures data authenticity, prevents tampering of data and guarantees authenticity and transparency of data in order to gain consumer trust, achieve open and transparent circulation process, reduce accidental injury and damage due to agricultural product quality problem, develop market space of agricultural product and gain positive encouragement by increasing farmers’ income and promoting healthy development of industry.
In terms of specific operation, we can design a traceability business process platform which includes multiple phases such as production, packaging, manufacturing, transportation, sales and etc. based on blockchain technology, while constructing complete traceability system structure which consists of data storage layer, network communication layer, data security and privacy protection layer, consensus layer, contract layer and application layer via transaction data issuance of each phase. This is to ensure authenticity, irremovable and tamper-proof after data issued on chain, and to achieve the ultimate target of agricultural product full circulation process traceability.
VoneTracer Empowers Agricultural Traceability
As the blockchain innovator, Vonechain Technology has involved in-depth on agriculture traceability sector for years, thus blockchain traceability platform VoneTracer which unveiled based on matured blockchain technology has currently deployed in various areas and gradually become the mainstream traceability product.
VoneTracer stores all industrial chain information of agricultural product starting from breeding, cultivation, harvest, warehouse storing, transportation, supply to sales on chain by utilizing many types of data collection method in order to achieve full process traceability of the whole life cycle information of agricultural product from breeding to end sales and then successfully deploy in different sectors.
VoneTracer achieves traceability in different sectors
In terms of agricultural brand traceability, VoneTracer verifies the product manufacturer through methods such as GPS location tracking, timestamp and production process recording of production enterprise in order to prevent smuggling and enable consumers to identify counterfeit goods accurately.
In terms of agricultural place of origin certification, VoneTracer verifies certain products with local characteristics and endorses for agricultural product coming from place of origin via combined record of GPS location tracking on agriculture place of origin, timestamp and IoT of place of origin.
In terms of agricultural production process traceability, VoneTracer can input and issue data of phases such as product manufacturing, circulation, secondary distribution, etc. on chain in order to trace the whole process and phase and achieve agricultural full process traceability.
When Vonechain Technology achieves scientific and intelligent monitoring management in agricultural traceability sector, at the same time it also fully uses modern technologies like big data, IoT, AI and so on to provide functions like monitoring and early warning for agricultural activities via online real data. This is to accomplish digital upgrade of overall agriculture industrial chain and achieve highly unified enterprise benefit and society benefit through empowerment of whole agriculture industrial chain using high and new technology.
In future, digital village construction will unveil an enormous agricultural development reformation, while agriculture industry will also achieve development transformation comprehensively. Vonechain Technology will continue to research in-depth on blockchain sector and create innovative development based on improving current blockchain product services and industrial solutions in order to strive in facilitating rural vitalization which is a vast issue in this era.