Blockchain-Enabled Agricultural Contract Fulfillment Mechanism
Abstract:
Contract farming is a vital organizational model for
mitigating systemic risks in agricultural supply chains, yet it is
persistently hindered by severe trust deficits and prohibitive legal
enforcement costs. Traditional centralized credit evaluation
systems often fail to encompass dispersed smallholder farmers,
leaving their historical compliance locked as illiquid, implicit
social capital. To address these structural vulnerabilities, this
paper proposes a novel blockchain-enabled agricultural contract
fulfillment mechanism grounded in decentralized identity (DID)
and verifiable credentials. Rather than treating reputation as a
direct transactional currency, we design a bidirectional anchoring
architecture where on-chain reputation acts as a cryptographic
trust anchor to validate the authenticity of verifiable
credentials (VCs). These VCs transparently prove a farmer’s
actual production capacity and off-chain agricultural records.
Through the autonomous execution of smart contracts, this
endogenous governance system links these authenticated capacity
credentials directly to agricultural transactions. Successful fulfillment
naturally yields a reputation premium, whereas opportunistic
default, or the issuance of falsified credentials, triggers the
immediate, systemic destruction of the responsible parties’credit
capital. A multi-agent transaction simulation validates the
proposed framework, demonstrating its efficacy in filtering
market risks based on verifiable capacity and overcoming the
cold-start dilemma for new rural entrants.
Index Terms: Blockchain, contract farming, decentralized identity (DID), verifiable credentials, credit tokenization
Published in:The International Journal of Intelligent Control and Systems (Volume: 31, Issue: 1, 2026-03-31)
Page(s):92 - 99