Ayadee TRAK Supply Chain System

PeterJohnson

Here's a space to discuss and ask questions about the Ayadee TRAK Supply Chain System. Our work has started out focused on agricultural supply chains, since in developing countries over half the economy is in agriculture, and thus we could make a bigger economic impact focused on these markets. We use Stellar because it is fast, light, cheap and reliable, and we built a very easy to use app on top of this for our pilots. The initial pilots, with turmeric produced by a women's cooperative in India and coffee produced by a very environmentally friendly farm in Costa Rica tested the idea that there was demand to track this info, and to have a simple and easy to use app, but now we have made the app even simpler (four buttons total, and hitting send automatically adds the date, time and GPS location as a hash of the data is sent into the blockchain), and of course with this second round the data is going into the blockchain, as opposed to the pilot where data went into AWS.

We have had a lot of requests about using this kind of traceability for non-agricultural use cases, and we'll post in this space about some of the other pilots that are launching to verify provenance of goods, as well as preventing fraud and counterfeiting.

PeterJohnson

Here's a sampling of farms and products we plan to apply TRAK to with a local partner, Fresco Market, in El Salvador, which is the first online grocery store in El Salvador:

https://frescomarket.co/

Morataya Farms in San Vicente. Watermelons, Melons, Plantain, coconut.
Corral Blanco in Ateos, Colon. Yuca
Finca Larin in Juayua. Washington Oranges, and some others herbs.
San José Monterrey Farms in Sonsonate: Arugula, Color Raddishes , Carrots, Hormone Free Eggs.
René Urrutia, Comasagua, Sweet Strawberry ( California seed)
Óscar Peñate, Ahuachapan, Salad Tomatoes
Meridian Farm - Cangrejera, Passion Fruit and Jalapeño Peppers
Hortalizas el Chaparral, Metapan, Asparagous
Cooperativa La Sabiduría, Zapotitan, Chile Verde

PeterJohnson

Colombian Coffee Farms Plan to Use TRAK for 2021 Coffee Season

Finca La Frontera, and Finca La Costa, both located the mountainous Villamaría, Colombia, growing Castillo Naranja coffee beans, have decided to track the 2021 harvest with Ayadee's TRAK supply chain system. As some of their coffee grows at varying elevations,and the begin to Lso experiment with growing the Geisha Panama varietal of coffee beans, TRAK will allow them to tell the story of their coffee, tracking each batch. As well, Finca La Frontera will track the processing of coffee from both farms, as well as coffee from nearby farms, and will work with logistics companies and coffee roasters to transparently tell the full story of the coffee coming from this region. These two farms are owned by a US diplomat who has spent a over twenty years in public service and who hopes to make a social impact on on this farming community, including using TRAK to differentiate the regional coffee through storytelling and obtain better prices not only for his farm but also for other local farms whose beans he processes and exports.

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Olive Oil Expert Uses TRAK to Raise Income of Female Olive Farmers in North Africa

Olive oil sommelier certified at University of California Davis, anthropologist and Tunisian ambassador of Nexus Global, Soraya Hosni is beginning to use TRAK for the olive harvest that begins this month, from the point olives are picked through its pressing into olive oil and transport to North American markets. As a project to increase income of rural women in her native country, she offers advice to female farmers on how to produce higher quality, and thus higher value, olives and olive oil, for export to North American markets. Historically, Tunisian olive oil is unbranded and sold to larger olive oil producers in Italy at low prices, but Hosni seeks to capture both a greater percentage of the value chain and higher overall prices for local female farmers in this North African country. Her company, Red Kabus, develops tools and technologies to support the most vulnerable of the agricultural supply chain: farmers.

PeterJohnson

Youth Activist Uses TRAK to Help Farmers Reduce Risk of COVID Spread in Liberia
Internationally recognized youth activist Rhmeeak Williams is using TRAK to reduce the risk of COVID spreading to agricultual communities in his native Liberia. Through the use of TRAK, farmers can share the full story of their products with food distributors and retailers,who can view each entry of data about a particular harvest from planting up until they purchase the crops. Buyers then know the quality and quantity of goods available and can place orders, reducing personal contact as farmers do not need to travel to the cities and wait in the market with their produce, reducing the contact between rural dwellers, who have less access to medical care, and urban merchants. Food waste is also reduced as farmers only transport to the city what has been ordered. This product is being piloted with Liberia's most important staple food, cassava, with twenty farmers planned for the pilot. It is hoped that these transparent supply chains will also boost the demand for Liberian cassava throughout other West African markets where it is also a staple product. Williams started building his networks among farmers through his work for the Liberian Minister of Agriculture and through traveling to rural areas to distribute masks and anti-bacterial soaps to reduce the spread of COVID-19 into Liberia's rural communities.

PeterJohnson

Active Pilot: Finca La Joya, a coffee farm in the same family for over 100 years on the side of Lake Coatepeque in El Salvador, has tracked its 2020 coffee season in TRAK. Click on this link to view the entries as they are updated, with hashes of the data stored in Stellar: https://www.ayadee.io/?i=jlfrances

PeterJohnson

TRAK to Track Medical Gowns
TRAK is being used by the non-profit Maitri Platform to track SigShield's first export of medical gowns from its factory in New Delhi, India, to be donated to West Neighborhood House in Toronto, Canada.