Smart Farming: Securing Farmers Using Block Chain Technology and IOT

Agriculture is a fundamental human activity and has a lot of significance in India. The quality and quantity of production have reduced drastically due to diseases that occur and impact of bad weather. Though farmers are producing a good quantity of crops, middle men are stealing the benefits, and this leads to a curb in financial position to start the next crop. The utilization of blockchain technology in the agriculture sector can yield significant results by creation of direct markets to farmers as the blockchain tools are capable of tracing the origin of appetite as it facilitates the creation of reliable food supply chain and constructs faith among the consumer and farmer. It is the reliable process of storing data that smooth the progress of various aspects of the information motivated tools that makes smarter agriculture and this chapter examines the main areas of smart farming, insurance to farm, agricultural transactions and food supply chains. The blockchain technology is growing as an inclusive full-fledged technology which can be utilized in almost all smart applications established within future generation aspects of the Internet, and it is a flourishing technology where each and every node that is involved within the blockchain comprises a disseminated ledger that reinforces the protection and transparency aspects of data. Prohibited users will be restricted to perform any illegitimate transaction in the blockchain network as it has the potential to perform smart contract and consensus. Due to COVID-19 Indian government has taken decision to facilitate farmers to sell their crops anywhere in India and the Real time environment IoT can be combined with the block chain to get better the performance by eliminating the middleperson.