Blockchain (or distributed ledger) technology was introduced in 2008, when the famous Bitcoin cryptocurrency was initiated. Blockchain has been undergoing rapid growth in both academia and industry. Today, it is no exaggeration to say that blockch...

The potential of blockchain applications for promoting the high-quality development of agriculture and rural areas has received attention worldwide. China is currently in a mature stage of national poverty alleviation and a crucial period for rura...

Big data constitutes a core technology for smart agriculture. However, there are a number of issues related to security with big data that could limit progress with smart agriculture. Following the speedy development of blockchain technology and i...

It is very important to improve the control of agricultural inputs to ensure food safety and achieve the goals of reducing fertilizer and drug use. Because of the wide variation in time and space in the supply chain, various regulatory bodies, and...

The scale of ecological data storage continues to increase with the expansion of research in the field of ecology. However, traditional centralized data storage methods are unsustainable for dealing with increasingly large volumes of ecological da...

A new perspective of “Three Rural Issues” finance that overall research framework is proposed which includes agriculture, rural areas and farmers. In this paper,“Three Rural Issues” finance is a general name of agricultural finance, rural finance,...

Agriculture is the main industry in China. A safe, credible, stable, traceable, information-sharing, and large-throughput agricultural supply chain system is needed to achieve agricultural informatization. At present, information about China’s agr...

Animal quarantine is a crucial link in food safety supervision; electronic certification of animal quarantine is highly important toward ensuring food safety. An animal quarantine certificate confirms the safe market conditions for animal husbandr...

Traceability of agricultural products involves tracking such products in a positive, reverse, or non-directional manner. That traceability covers all processes: from planting and production, logistics and transport, warehousing and sales through t...

The current era of big data and data industrialization is fueling trends in digital agricultural and rural industry, which together open the way to solving problems of poor timeliness and narrow coverage of traditional agricultural and rural infor...