agriculture and bitcoin

[HarmonyA]

Hello all.

Please teach me how could I use a crypto for developing agriculture in my country?

Cheers.

You can begin a crypto based installment application for ranchers, application can give security on ranchers' income and can settle shoppers' expense on fruit,vegetables, grains, and so on.
Utilizing crypto-based installment application can be center point for national agricultural markets.

[sunsilk]

For the ICO, there's no need to do this. I think there were projects before that aimed to help the agricultural sector and economy by providing their tokens but it wasn't really effective and useful at all. It was abused and just became a source of wealth collection for the side of the developers.

Yes,this method of raising funds was very discredited by various types of SCAM, which were very common earlier, but if various guarantees of the return of funds, with competent white paper, in a painted financial plan, are provided, then this can be very good.

It gave them an idea that it was this easy to make money out of it by just providing a vision of helping the agricultural sector. Be it with farmers, renewable energy and other stuff that can be connected to that sector.

Still, many are not closing the doors for the opportunity if there's an actual and legit project that will certainly provide a vision and proposal that's really aiming to get with the specific part in agriculture.

[rockminer1]

There are blockchain projects that register the supply chain and link contractors to farmers.
Benefits for the farmer is that he can sell a product for a good price and not need to have the cash to pay contractors first.
It can create a trust chain and no coin is needed. I can bring you in contact with the organization that develops this.

It will be great but also I'd like to know details about it, if it's possible.

To supply we must to grow plants on our land. Now we can grow only small part without special machines.
So our problem for now is to get cheap credits for buying agricultural machines, seeds and special equipments. And we should store foods because in the Autumn price on agriculture is very low.

If get some bitcoins we also must have a good rating in cryptoworld, but it is really complicated. We created infovacuum around our farm for 1 year and realised some crypto project and worked hard on farm. I got credit and bought 1 tractor, some equipments and some mining rigs. Now I sell bitcoin, sell some food and return money to bank. It is real story how to develop with crypto. But my credit limits is not so high to cover land 170Ha.

I don't want get credits in bitcoin. Bitcoin can be 50000$ after several years, I think it is too risky for agriculture business and own reputation. I cannot sell all production via bitcoin because in local area people don't use bitcoin. And I don't know how to use tokens for real investors.

I thought about series of smart contracts for small aims. Like smart contract for buying tractor and equipments for growing plants, smart contract for the simple warehouse to store food until Spring, smart contract for the biogas producing machine, smart contract for the biogas generator of electricity. It are just ideas.

I created this thread to understand should I go in this direction or not? Or do I need to search agriculture partners like banks or private local investors?

Sorry for mistakes, English is not my native language.

[rockminer1]

You can begin a crypto based installment application for ranchers, application can give security on ranchers' income and can settle shoppers' expense on fruit,vegetables, grains, and so on.
Utilizing crypto-based installment application can be center point for national agricultural markets.

It is too complicated for us. We are farmers, we are not about to write application for crypto-investors.

I do not plan on offending you but I just would like to say that Agriculture itself is a job , not even a job but it's something people cherish because it has been passed down from generations to generations and you know I do think that it is the most vital job one can ever do.

In our case, this is our job for last 5 years only. If you know, our country was a Soviet union in the past. There was no farmers. There was colectives of people without private property. Property was common for all. Machines was producing by goverment plan. But it is old story, I'd like to speak about real time, not about past

We started as farmers again from zero because of it.

[rockminer1]

First I would like to Thank you for taking such step or even thinking about it.
I do think that Agriculture and cryptocurrencies are way way apart but I do think there is something you could do.

If you do feel comfortable you can create a website which sells the products directly from the farmers without any middle men and you can start receiving payments in bitcoins itself , do give them some discounts if they are paying in bitcoins because you know When you eradicate the middle men you are gonna save up a lot for the farmers and this profit , even 1-2% of it can be used to give discounts for the people paying in cryptocurrencies.

Thank you for the excelent idea. I think it can work in Europe or somewhere else but in our country it can be a little risky because we have no laws about bitcoin. We can sell bitcoin via fiat but I afraid to sell production via bitcoin.

In fact, some people are selling illegal things hiddenly in the darknet. Crypto is good for this, is not it? Without law I don't want sell like this.

[rockminer1]

It gave them an idea that it was this easy to make money out of it by just providing a vision of helping the agricultural sector. Be it with farmers, renewable energy and other stuff that can be connected to that sector.

Still, many are not closing the doors for the opportunity if there's an actual and legit project that will certainly provide a vision and proposal that's really aiming to get with the specific part in agriculture.

We did 2 plans
1. We write own plan and did ICO (we rased 0 funds and continiue own story on own resourses)
2. We bought analyze of our ICO and bought tokenomy plan from cryptoanalytic. But it is too complicate for me to realise this tokenomy  (I can share for you but only as google translated pdf if you want but it needs some time for translating)

Also cryptoanalitic found for us some famous agriculture projects. Before I go sleep, I want share it for you. Information was collected almost 1 year ago, some information can be not actual.

1. www.smartlands.io (Spain) - it is opportunities for real sector to recieve investments. But I did not write mail to them yet.
Our cryptoanalitic wrote:
"At Medium: Smartlands is a global platform for tokenizing the assets of the real economy by issuing Security Tokens
Smartlands: a breakthrough platform that provides an opportunity for any agribusiness tokenize their assets and attract investments from crypto investors. Crypto investors will be able to invest in asset-backed tokens and discover agribusiness as a new investment market.1
The platform offers tokenize any business from the real sector. After the audit, a certain number of tokens will be issued corresponding to the assessment of the company's fixed assets. Required: the presence of a real working business, financial statements for the previous 2 years (preferably), a detailed business plan." (google translate)

2. https://www.pavocoin.com (site is dead) - Iot stuff for agriculture. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3227901
Our cryptoanalitic wrote:
"The creators of Pavocoin claim that they will be able to “pump” the farming sector with the help of IoT and cryptotechnologies and take it to a new level. A high-tech approach is put at the forefront regarding sowing, cultivation, and processing / harvesting / delivery of crops. There is reason to consider the project a scam." (google translate)

3. https://agricoin.asia/ (site is dead) -
Our cryptoanalitic wrote:
"Agricoin (AGC) works without borders, which allows the process of payment and transfer of agricultural products worldwide.
AGC Blockchain: In addition to existing similar cryptocurrency platforms that have already established themselves and are well known, Agricoin (AGC) promotes further compatibility and flexibility with other blockchain technologies.
Agricoin (AGC) is not only a technology, but we are promoting the idea of ​​fair and ethical business practices in agricultural industries. We occupy a position as a connecting infrastructure among the components of agribusiness, such as farmers, farmer cooperatives, financial institutions, storage and distribution systems, the commodity market, initial communities and many others.
3 members from Asia and the only way to contact is LinkedIn.
With a high degree of probability, we can say that the scam project and there are no technological innovations behind it" (google translate)

4. http://biocoin.bio (Russia) - (site is not working). Real project, real story in Moscow, I buy foods sometime in Lavka Lavka lavkalavka.com. Boris Akimov created token in time not good for bitcoin. Look https://coinmarketcap.com/ru/currencies/biocoin/. Sad.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2169384

Token is still cryptocurency but I don't know how to buy biocoins

Our cryptoanalitic wrote:
"BioCoin is creating a vibrant ecosystem that supports local communities and green businesses, builds a network of socially responsible companies around the world, and accelerates the global adoption of organic agriculture, sustainable development, and responsible consumption.
Despite a strong PR, the Bio team has not yet been able to fully justify the investor community, and probably in the future, the consumer community. But, the existence and success of the project confirm that in Russia there is a demand for quality products from local farms and the category of clean products." (google translate)

5. https://demeter.life/ - site is still working. Good idea for future, it is time for me to look again on this project.

Our cryptoanalitic wrote:
"Demeter is the revolution of organic food through blockchain technology. We are creating the Growfounding concept, an opportunity for users to “rent” Micro-Field directly from farmers and grow the products you want as they see fit.
The Demeter platform will allow people from all over the world to rent micro-fields in different corners of the planet and engage in agriculture. Thanks to transparent technology, users will not overpay and will be able to decide how to cultivate the land themselves. Or you can just buy agricultural products anywhere you like.
Another project without bright features, without a prototype, and with the idea "For all the good""  (google translate)

6. http://mashkino.club/ (Russia) - looks like a real project. The real business, but there are now english text inside.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2286600.0

7. http://www.kolionovo.com/en/ (Russia) - famous Russian project. Story of success. Real farm, real people. Like!
Our cryptoanalitic wrote:
"The Kolionovo Ecosystem project is aimed at creating and conducting extensive testing of the local economy model and raising funds for the development of real production of agricultural goods and services. The KOLION marker is based on the Waves chain and is used as the main currency in the ecosystem." (google translate)

I think it is enough for today. Thank you for attention.

[renuabened]

I'm glad that there are people who want to implement bitcoin in all areas! It seems to me that this is possible, and that such a combination of agriculture and bitcoin - it will be something very progressive. I read everything that was written here and agree with others. Use all reasonable ideas from the community, also look for ideas on other websites, I'm sure they exist.
We are also always happy to hear any updates on this topic if you decide to develop agriculture using bitcoin!

[worle1bm]

Hello all.

Please teach me how could I use a crypto for developing agriculture in my country?

Cheers.

You have to develop the vision first. Crypto is ambiguous term, it includes lots of sub-cases like implementing cryptocurrencies, involving blockchain technology and more. You can contribute to the development agriculture in more than one way. You can either create a decentralized market for farmers to sell their produce and receive payments in cryptocurrencies or you can develop some new techniques for increasing agriculture efficiency and distribute that to farmers via blockchain technology or you can create a platform where farmers can raise loans or contribute funds as cooperative which will increase the joint-efficiency.

[bitgolden]

Hello all.

Please teach me how could I use a crypto for developing agriculture in my country?

Cheers.

You have to develop the vision first. Crypto is ambiguous term, it includes lots of sub-cases like implementing cryptocurrencies, involving blockchain technology and more. You can contribute to the development agriculture in more than one way. You can either create a decentralized market for farmers to sell their produce and receive payments in cryptocurrencies or you can develop some new techniques for increasing agriculture efficiency and distribute that to farmers via blockchain technology or you can create a platform where farmers can raise loans or contribute funds as cooperative which will increase the joint-efficiency.

Excluding that, OP can also start farming on his own with the most advanced techniques as there are been technologies which have made farming a way lot easier but profitable. Least hardwork is needed in farming these days and with blockchain, we could even generate the most advanced gadgets ever who might even handle the entire plantation process on their own.

Setting up various farms with these techniques might make OP gain huge benefits without any actual hardwork. Also organic fruits and vegetables have an ever increasing demand in the markets which would never depict so this is a plus point for all those who have the concept of farming into their minds.

[Latviand]

That is a bit hard for the essence that Bitcoin is something digital and agriculture is an aspect of a different kind. The only way I think Bitcoin can be used in agriculture is to convert it into fiat to shift into an agricultural investment. But it does depend on what country you are in.
If your country have adapted blockchain technology then it would be okay to use your crypto into direct buying or investing to goods that would benefit to your aim or goal of agricultural development. But if you would try to carry your country as a whole in this "agricultural development", then that would be a difficult thing to achieve. Maybe, clearing out your intentions such as by being more specific would be better.

[crypto4jan]

There are blockchain projects that register the supply chain and link contractors to farmers.
Benefits for the farmer is that he can sell a product for a good price and not need to have the cash to pay contractors first.
It can create a trust chain and no coin is needed. I can bring you in contact with the organization that develops this.

It will be great but also I'd like to know details about it, if it's possible.
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https://www.agunity.com/
There is also e meetup group with tons of info: https://www.meetup.com/Blockchainfood/

[TheGreatPython]

That depends on how you really want to use cryptocurrency in your business. You can decide to create an app that lets people invest in your farm land using cryptocurrency. Saying this because I have seen a company that did that in my country, but the difference would be that they are not accepting cryptocurrencies, we make payment using our debit cards.

But, you can do similar and allow people to invest using cryptocurrency if they wish, and within a fixed period like 6 months or so, they will make some profit. Or maybe you can allow people to purchase farm produce from you by using Bitcoin. I believe there are lots of ideas that you can come up, it all depends on what you really want.

[stompix]

I have an idea. You can create a coin using which you can buy local agricultural products in your country.

I agree with this, they can take advantage of the technology and create their own coin with its sole purpose of helping develop our agriculture.

Yes, exactly!
Take advantage of the technology and create a coin that complicates everything!!!!

What would a new coin do other than giving farmers nightmares and sleepless nights?
Not only have people like my family care about the weather, diseases, price of crops, price of gas, now we would have to check every ten minutes the price of that shitcoin!

Tell me one, one damn advantage a token will have for a farming business and I will tell my parents all my relatives and all the villagers in my old town about it and I will shill for that coin 24/7 on this forum! One thing that could be done with a token and not bitcoin!

1. www.smartlands.io (Spain) - it is opportunities for real sector to recieve investments. But I did not write mail to them yet.

Yeah, from 24 millions to 500k$, no volume , no exchange!

2. https://www.pavocoin.com (site is dead) - Iot stuff for agriculture. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=3227901

It was a scam!

3. https://agricoin.asia/ (site is dead) -

Another scam

4. http://biocoin.bio (Russia) - (site is not working). Real project, real story in Moscow, I buy foods sometime in Lavka Lavka lavkalavka.com.

Another scam

5. https://demeter.life/ - site is still working. Good idea for future, it is time for me to look again on this project.

Failed project

6. http://mashkino.club/ (Russia) - looks like a real project. The real business, but there are now english text inside.

Failed project

7. http://www.kolionovo.com/en/ (Russia) - famous Russian project. Story of success. Real farm, real people. Like!
 

Another fail with zero deliveries.

[royalfestus]

I dont know why most new projects cant adopt other coins from there region as a medium of payment, I dont think it does matter what the existing project is all about if the project is not a scam and coin is a medium of payment. Build your online payment site through the project and engage the coin as medium of  payment. Even if the project get themselves off the market, the community behind your product will the drive the coin back to market, however, we need to ascertain the need for cryptocurrency as means of exchange. If fiat is doing perfectly well stay within this comfort

[HammaSan]

I think you can use blockchain technology.
Blockchain transforms the agricultural supply chain by simplifying the transition between producers and retail. Through the possibility of quickly identifying the sources as well as verifying deviations. If an irregularity is detected somewhere in the food chain, the system can take you to the point of origin, which makes investigations easier and more assertive, reducing the need for multiple conferences.
In this way, the entry point for small-scale farmers begins to look for opportunities. Entering the supply chain through the ease developed with the reduction of intermediaries becomes an opportunity.
If you have bitcoins then you can use them to buy supplies and machines for your agribusiness.

[sunsilk]

It gave them an idea that it was this easy to make money out of it by just providing a vision of helping the agricultural sector. Be it with farmers, renewable energy and other stuff that can be connected to that sector.

Still, many are not closing the doors for the opportunity if there's an actual and legit project that will certainly provide a vision and proposal that's really aiming to get with the specific part in agriculture.

We did 2 plans
1. We write own plan and did ICO (we rased 0 funds and continiue own story on own resourses)
2. We bought analyze of our ICO and bought tokenomy plan from cryptoanalytic. But it is too complicate for me to realise this tokenomy  (I can share for you but only as google translated pdf if you want but it needs some time for translating)

Also cryptoanalitic found for us some famous agriculture projects. Before I go sleep, I want share it for you. Information was collected almost 1 year ago, some information can be not actual.

1. You failed on it and you still want to try it again. But if there's legitimacy to the projects that you will start working with, this will automatically  gain the likes of the people and investors but if it's nothing new, expect nothing.

2. No, thank you. There's no need to share it and I don't need it. Don't buy something that you don't actually understand, services or offers like that earn from people that are thinking of how easy it is to make money from what they have discovered.

Thanks to stompix, so most of those projects were scam and if not, a failure.

[jostorres]

Agriculture is one of the basic and most important businesses of each country. Each country has some amount of farmers which keeps on generating a decent amount of fruits and vegetables which are been served to the entire nation. There is vast scope in agriculture but you need to gain some experience in the field itself. Agriculture too requires experienced knowledge which might be a bit challenging to acquire but not impossible. Agriculture could give us major benefits if we choose the plan to cultivate most cautiously.

Cryptocurrencies are a boost to newly launched products and you can even start your own startup if you have land and the skills to start farming as you would also get huge financial support from the community behind you.

[Negotiation]

Honestly, I don't know how to combine agriculture and cryptocurrency. The only thing that I came up with is to invest money in Bitcoin and Ethereum earned from your land. So you can increase your income

I think you can use crypto for agricultural development By investing in crypto, you can make money in agriculture. The best place to invest in crypto and from now on you can buy land for agriculture.

[mu_enrico]

OP, if you want investment, then forget about it. However, if you have a farm and want to be involved in cryptocurrency, in theory, there might be some ways. Well, you could sell your crops in Bitcoin, but I doubt it will be handy. You can also utilize waste by creating a biogas power plant connected to the mining rig.

But again, it would be better if you just being an ordinary farmer, focus on the productivity of your crops, and forget about cryptocurrency. You could, however, save a little bit amount of money in crypto just in case this technology become mainstream.

[Paycoinzzz]

Hello all.

Please teach me how could I use a crypto for developing agriculture in my country?

Cheers.

Actually using crypto or bitcoin to pay and develop an agriculture is quite easy, but we need to consult more about the laws in your country and some conditions needed to grow.
- First, you should learn about the laws of your country. If your country is comfortable with people using bitcoin for transactions and not taxing too high, you have passed stage 1.
- secondly, you should consider whether the corporations associated with you really want to pay with bitcoin or crypto. If they refuse to pay, we will face difficulties.
depending on how you develop in the future but first you need to meet the two conditions that I have given. otherwise you will have big trouble with money and the law.