Digital sharecropper: Connecting landowners, farmers, and investors through blockchain

Abstract

The agricultural sectors of many countries are dealing with difficulties such as underused arable land and inadequate infrastructure as a result of insufficient investment, posing serious concerns to food supplies and overall economic growth. To meet the increasing food demand and mitigate the aforementioned challenges, we propose a blockchain empowered smart agriculture system that connects farmers, landowners, and investors to provide farmers with access to land and financial resources. By leveraging blockchain technology, the system streamlines land sharing and crowdfunding for profit, facilitating transparent and accountable relationships between all entities. In this paper, we present the developed system on our proposal, discuss its architecture and illustrate its use-case to show its applicability. Finally, we analyse the performance of the developed system using metrics such as latency and response time.