Palm Oil Blockchain: Traceability and Sustainability in Palm Oil Industry

Through this Android-based application, the journey of the palm oil can be traced back to its origin, including the farmer’s identity, plantation legality and making sure that the palm oil was legally sourced as well as produced from an environmental and social conflict free area, thus it will create palm oil trading industry with perfect sustainability records.

A plantation worker (1A) harvest Fresh Fruit Bunches (FFB) using the EPCS Application. Information such as location estate blocks, plantation identity, worker identity, date and time harvested, quantity and quality of FFB can be captured and uploaded into the EPCS (7A) application in real-time based on GPS Satellite (7B). While FFB from independent farmers / plasma (1B) and middlemen (1C) are considered as an external source.

EPCS application software can support the registration process for compliant plantations, which can then be used to check the geolocation data of the harvested fruit bunches. This not only provides an unprecedented level of transparency, but also contributes to protecting the working conditions and legal employment of field workers and gives plantations rich data on crop harvesting. Thanks to digital maps with geolocation features, farmers, governments, certification authorities, and producers can maintain digital inventories of the plantations, and implement sustainable land usage planning policy. (7C & 7D)

Similarly, in the palm oil’s multimodal transportation chain, shipping companies could use tamper-proof GPS-enabled seals to lock containers, and mobile devices to record product shipment information based on the EPCS application. Once the shipment reaches the destination, only authorized personnel can access the credentials from the blockchain application to open the seal and start the receiving process.

In the era of environmentally aware and health conscious consumers (9A & 9B), this level of transparency will lead to a new era of trust and brand loyalty that impacted great value to companies in competitive era.

Finally, retailers (8A) and suppliers (8B) can present the end products with identifiers such as the QR Code, enabling buyer to view the oil’s journey back to its source through Blockchain platform (10).