АННОТАЦИЯ
Food traceability is one of the key aspects of modern-day supply chains. Identifying the prove-nance of a product and tracing its movement across the supply chain is an essential consideration for ensuring food safety. Conventional food supply chains were centralized in nature and possessed challenges pertaining to a single point of failure, product irregularities, quality compro-mises and loss of data. The Indian dairy sector is no different and continues to face legacy challenges of traditional supply chains. Numerous cases of food fraud, contamination and adulteration are daily reported from multiple parts of the country suggesting the absolute need for an upgraded decentralized supply chain model. Thousands of Indians suffer every year from multiple diseases caused by consuming adulterated dairy products. A country like India where its biggest strength is its demographic dividend, cannot afford to malnutrition a large population of its children by allowing them to consume contaminated and adulterated dairy products. In view of the gravity of the situation, we propose a blockchain-enabled supply chain platform for the dairy industry. With respect to the supply chain platform, the dairy products of choice include milk, cheese and butter. Blockchain is one of the fastest growing technologies having widespread acceptance across multiple industry verticals. Blockchain possesses the power to transform traditional supply chains into decentralized, robust, transparent, tamper proof and sustainable supply chains. The proposed supply chain platform goes beyond the aspect of food traceability and focuses on maintaining the nutritional values of dairy products, identification of adulteration and contamination in dairy products, the increasing economic viability of running a dairy farm, preventing counterfeit dairy products and enhancing the revenue of the dairy company. The paper collates the mentioned functionalities into four distinct impact dimensions: social, economic, operations and sustainability. We truly believe a blockchain-enabled dairy supply chain coupled with the use of smart contracts, QR code technology and IoT presents numerous opportunities and has the potential to redefine the dairy supply chains on socio-economic, operational and sustainability parameters.
ЦИТАТА
Blockchain-enabled Supply Chain platform for Dairy Industry: Safety and Traceability / A. Khanna, S. Jain, A. Burgio, V.E. Bolshev, V.A. Panchenko // Foods. – 2022. – Т. 11. – № 17. – P. 2716
