The market is changing rapidly, and new things are emerging one after another. No, in 2018, everyone is studying a new word - blockchain . Many people have read a lot of reports, but have not understood what blockchain is.
Although you haven't figured it out yet, someone has already applied this concept to agricultural production and sales. In Zhejiang, blockchain technology is used to sell West Lake Longjing, how to sell it? How is it different from ordinary Longjing?
Blockchain, a very hot financial concept. When people haven't figured out what it means, all walks of life have already begun to package themselves with new concepts. From logistics to manufacturing and, of course, agriculture.
(1) "Internet of Things + Blockchain"
At present, the main factors restricting the large-scale promotion of the Agricultural Internet of Things are high application and maintenance costs and poor performance. Moreover, the Internet of Things is centralized management. With the explosion of Internet of Things devices, the infrastructure investment and maintenance costs of data centers are difficult to estimate. The combination of the Internet of Things and blockchain will enable these devices to achieve self-management and maintenance, which saves the high maintenance costs centered on cloud control, reduces the later maintenance costs of Internet devices, and helps improve the agricultural Internet of Things. level of intelligence and scale.
(2) "Big Data + Blockchain"
The three major achievements of traditional databases, relational model, transaction processing, query optimization, until the rise of NOSql database after the popularity of the Internet, database technology is constantly developing and changing. In the future, with the further advancement of the project of information entering villages and households, the further informatization of government affairs, and the establishment of the agricultural big data collection system, how to solve the authenticity and effectiveness of the data in a large-scale way, this will be faced by the whole society. an urgent problem to be solved. And these technologies represented by blockchain, these requirements for the authenticity and validity of data that cannot be forged and cannot be tampered with are definitely a new starting point and new requirements compared to the current database.
(3) "Quality and Safety Traceability + Blockchain"
In the process of agricultural industrialization, the distance between production and consumption places has become farther, and consumers have no way of knowing the pesticides, fertilizers used by producers, and additives used in transportation and processing, and consumers' trust in production is reduced. For the agricultural product traceability system based on blockchain technology, once all data is recorded in the blockchain ledger, it cannot be changed. The advanced technology relying on asymmetric encryption and mathematical algorithms fundamentally eliminates human factors and makes information more transparent.
(4) "Rural Finance + Blockchain"
The overall difficulty of farmers' loans is mainly due to the lack of effective collateral, and in the final analysis, the lack of a credit mortgage mechanism. Since the blockchain is built on the basis of decentralized P2P credit, it transcends the limitations of countries and regions. In the global Internet market, it can play the role of high-efficiency and low-cost value transfer that cannot be replaced by traditional financial institutions. When a new type of agricultural business entity applies for a loan, it needs to provide corresponding credit information, which needs to rely on the corresponding information data recorded by banks, insurance or credit reporting agencies. However, there are problems such as incomplete information, inaccurate data, and high cost of use. The usefulness of blockchain is to automatically record massive information by relying on program algorithms and store it on every computer in the blockchain network. The information is transparent and tampered with. High difficulty and low cost of use. Therefore, when applying for a loan, it is no longer necessary to rely on intermediaries such as banks and credit reporting companies to provide credit certificates, and the lending institutions can simply retrieve the corresponding information data of the blockchain.
(5) "Agricultural Insurance + Blockchain"
Agricultural insurance has a small variety and low coverage, and insurance fraud incidents often occur. After the combination of blockchain and agricultural insurance, agricultural insurance will have a lot of room for improvement in agricultural intellectual property protection and agricultural property rights transactions, and will greatly simplify the agricultural insurance process. In addition, because smart contracts are an important concept of blockchain, applying the concept of smart contracts to the field of agricultural insurance will make agricultural insurance claims more intelligent. In the past, if a major agricultural natural disaster occurred, the corresponding claims period would be relatively long. After applying the smart contract to the blockchain, once the agricultural disaster is detected, the compensation process will be automatically started, which makes the compensation more efficient.
(6) "Supply Chain + Blockchain"
What is a supply chain? All the links involved in the whole process from production to sales, from raw materials to finished products to the final arrival of products to customers belong to the scope of the supply chain. At present, the supply chain may involve hundreds of processing links and dozens of different locations, and the number is so large that it brings great difficulties to the tracking and management of the supply chain. Blockchain technology can record all information involved in the supply chain process of products on different ledgers, including the responsible company involved, price, date, address, quality, and product status, etc., the transaction will be permanent. , decentralized recording, which reduces time delays, costs and human errors.
It is worth mentioning that although the application of blockchain is a precedent for the country to try the "ecological agriculture + blockchain" model, it can be seen from the exploration and scientific research on ecological agriculture for more than ten years and the in-depth research on blockchain technology for many years. On the basis of feasibility, "ecological agriculture + blockchain" will change the structure of the entire agricultural industry chain, and it is bound to be a booster to promote the development of the rural economy and even the real economy.