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Front. Sustain. Food Syst.
Sec. Agro-Food Safety
Volume 8 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fsufs.2024.1464918
This article is part of the Research Topic Ensuring Food Safety And Quality Throughout The Supply Chain View all 11 articles

Construction of A Blockchain Based Cold Chain Logistics Information Platform for Gannan Navel Oranges to Enhance Transparency and Efficiency

Provisionally accepted
Xifeng Xu Xifeng Xu 1,2*YUEN CHOON WAH YUEN CHOON WAH 2Suhana B. Koting Suhana B. Koting 2
  • 1 Jiangxi Flight University, Jiangxi, China
  • 2 University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

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    As a high-value agricultural product, the cold chain logistics management of Gannan navel oranges has global significance. Especially in Africa and Europe, food safety and supply chain quality are critical issues. However, the existing Gannan navel orange logistics information management system relies on traditional databases and information systems, with insufficient data sharing and transparency, affecting the overall coordination of the supply chain and customer satisfaction. In addition, the traditional system is vulnerable to hacker attacks and malicious tampering of data by insiders, resulting in serious economic losses and reputation damage. So the blockchain platform constructed in this study improves the transparency and traceability of logistics data through the SMART-PBFT algorithm of the alliance chain, which optimizes the logistics management process, improves the quality of logistics services and reduces operating costs. It improves the logistics efficiency and data transparency of local agricultural products, and also provides a demonstrative case for the cold chain management of other high-value agricultural products around the world, with broad application potential and reference value.

    Keywords: Gannan navel orange, Cold chain logistics, Information Management, Blockchain, supply chain management

    Received: 15 Jul 2024; Accepted: 17 Sep 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Xu, WAH and Koting. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Xifeng Xu, Jiangxi Flight University, Jiangxi, China

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