agriculture and bitcoin

[TheUltraElite]

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

You have first see if bitcoin or crypto is legal acceptable in your country because you would not want to run into legal problems later on. Once that is cleared now look into your available infrastructure.

If you need machines and tools maybe you can use buy them with bitcoin? If the manpower is affordable to be bought with bitcoin then you can use that. After that you might wish to allow private investors to buy shares fo your company on the stock market or the token market of crypto. The second one is where mostly people think about crypto startups. However considering the bear market at this time of the year and since the last 2years, IPO funding would be a better option.

[el kaka22]

The simplest way would be to actually invest into bitcoin with the crop profits of the farmers, that way they could take advantage of the system where poor has the same level of chance to make money as the rich, compared to fiat world where the producers is not profiting as much as the people who just type in numbers to a screen. Plus, there could be some sort of ICO possibility for farmers who would be able to raise funds for further their farming and make more products and sell more crops and maybe share it with the investors for the excess amount.

A farmer who makes 10k a year could get millions in funding (or a farmer association) and then make 30k profit instead with that investment, sharing 15k of it with investors and making 5k more for the trouble they will go through. Numbers could be just example made up ones but the logic stands.

[redsun114]

The only method I can think of would be to have a website that accepts crypto which ties the end user with the farmer directly without putting anyone in the middle and use some sort of farming ICO or something in order to create a coin that farmers could use between each other as well, that way you will have no middle men at all and farmers would be able both sell their products and also buy whatever they need using just one coin and they would profit a lot more.

Of course, there are dangers involved in this, you can just use bitcoin as well or any coin you want but the moment price goes down, the farmers would be affected more than they normally would with middlemen, which is why farmers with websites use dollars to make sure they don't end up in negative.

[shield132]

First of all bitcoin isn't a magic thing, it's not Genie, it's not Rumpelstiltskin, it's not Fairy and etc.
So crypto has nothing to do with agricultural business, it can't protect you from accidental weather damage, floods, it's not fertilizer also and can't speed up growth of your products.
But you may use blockchain technologies in agriculture but again it's not magic too. It can help you in traceability, logistics and etc. Since it seems that you are interested in this task and are looking for some help, I suggest you to search contents where blockchain and agriculture are in correlation, also read this free pdf book: http://www.fao.org/3/CA2906EN/ca2906en.pdf

[Mometaskers]

That's a rather broad question. I think the best way to use it to help farmers is to create a crowdfunding platform to help them buy supplies for their farms and make BTC a payment option.

There are already some platforms doing this, like Cropital, so you'd already have an example to follow and then simply allow cryptos to be used, no need to make your own blockchain/alt. This would be more a charity since it wouldn't always be certain that there'll be a return on investments.

[romero121]

If I'm not wrong bitcoin and agriculture is possible through simple way of mining. A known person to me had mining hosting services in his agricultural farm. The mining setup isn't that big, but he had got free electricity from the government which gave good return out of the mining. One who is really interested into agriculture can invest into mining in an eco-friendly manner and with the profit made out of mining can invest continuously on productive agriculture.

[stompix]

The only method I can think of would be to have a website that accepts crypto which ties the end user with the farmer directly without putting anyone in the middle and use some sort of farming ICO or something in order to create a coin that farmers could use between each other as well, that way you will have no middle men at all and farmers would be able both sell their products and also buy whatever they need using just one coin and they would profit a lot more.

I think you're looking at farming like it was done in the 18th century or somewhere around that timeline..
What need do you think farmers have to deal with each other, do you think my parents going to buy grain from a  farmer for raising pigs and that farmer that raise chickens is going to trade eggs for meat?

The whole farming stuff when it comes to transactions is pretty much a real good oiled machine in developed countries with no tokens no nothing.
We're running a contract with a large store, that goes through our bank, it raises our credit limit, payments are direct from our bank to and from, I can check daily our finances in a 20 years old program that can run on windows 2000 because there is no need for more.
You need more technology to play candy crush that running the finances.

A known person to me had mining hosting services in his agricultural farm. The mining setup isn't that big, but he had got free electricity from the government which gave good return out of the mining.

How about this idea then?
The government can simply give us free money and we're all going to be rich!
You realize that there is no such thing as free electricity, right?
It's subsidized electricity that it's paid from your own pocket, but you don't realize!

As I said previously, and this is to all the people who think a token is a solution, please name one real-life situation where a token is advantageous over traditional systems that would offset the headache of dealing with it.
Common, one advantage a token would have and one thing that this coin would be able to do and bitcoin can't!!!!

[darewaller]

There are ways that cryptocurrency and the Blockchain can be useful in agriculture, but the things I have in mind are not things that only you can do, it’s kind of a thing that the world will have to agree on. Like I said, it’s not just about Bitcoin, Bitcoin can’t even play a roll in agriculture unless you plan to be accepting payment for supplies in Bitcoin, that’s the only way it’s going to be useful to you in this field.

The thing that’s likely to be useful someday in agriculture is Blockchain, there are lots of ways it can be used to improve the field of agriculture. It can be used for overseeing farm inventory, and it can as well be used for enhancing agricultural supply chains.

[wheelz1200]

Hello all.

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

Cheers.

I dont think I understand what you mean.  Maybe if there are unbanked individuals in your area they can use crypto to buy and sell agriculture products.  But as far as crypto helping developing agriculture I think you are looking at crypto wrong, I'm sorry.

[Vishnu.Reang]

Well, Russia is a country with above average acceptance of Bitcoin. You can bargain with your suppliers (for fertilizer and pesticide) and request them to accept Bitcoin as a mode of payment. Apart from Bitcoin, you can implement the Blockchain technology to track the incoming supplies and the delivery of farm products to the whole sale dealers. I think already we have several Blockchain applications for that purpose.

[Negotiation]

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!

I agree with you that I think this is a reasonable idea and crypto will play a huge role in the development of agriculture. Let us consider Crypto as a container for development.

[Oasisman]

Well, Russia is a country with above average acceptance of Bitcoin. You can bargain with your suppliers (for fertilizer and pesticide) and request them to accept Bitcoin as a mode of payment. Apart from Bitcoin, you can implement the Blockchain technology to track the incoming supplies and the delivery of farm products to the whole sale dealers. I think already we have several Blockchain applications for that purpose.

This is the most ideal thing to do with someone like OP wants to use cryptocurrency or Bitcoin to run an agricultural business. One of the mainstream application used to run a business is the smart contracts. This way the OP can manage his agricultural supplies with ease, while accepting Bitcoin and other altcoins.

I can't think of any business that connects Bitcoin and agriculture rather than what was mentioned above.

[shoreno]

Well, Russia is a country with above average acceptance of Bitcoin. You can bargain with your suppliers (for fertilizer and pesticide) and request them to accept Bitcoin as a mode of payment. Apart from Bitcoin, you can implement the Blockchain technology to track the incoming supplies and the delivery of farm products to the whole sale dealers. I think already we have several Blockchain applications for that purpose.

i thought that russia restricted cryptos before or maybe they are open and backed on the game again ? 

but that is true that there are now blockchain projects about agriculture  but those projects also issued thier own tokens/altcoins and not btc  but its always possible for btc to be used on our agri business , like for example your given suggestion above  .  sky is the only limit here because cryptos/blockchain/btc have endless posibilities  .

[iamsheikhadil]

Blockchain can help like to record the amount of crops grown per unit area under conditions under favorable conditions without manipulation or data corruption. Farmers can be paid in crypto to facilitate they get what they deserve and not a penny less. I think it's a question with vast scope.

[TIDOVEE]

My simple way of advising you is; make enough coin, when you sell, in regards to whichever aspect you want to invest in the agriculture, you may buy enough land, do mechanized farming, employ more hands, make good production. Then, you may involve the government to also support by investing into it. From there, whatever your product, it will be a benefit to your country at large.there are some agricultural organizations  that still invest in bitcoin even as project. You can get there.

[AniviaBtc]

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.

Here in our country, they don't care about the cryptocurrency because the government here are more focused on the other issues including drugs, the trending nCov, and etc. The government here are doesn't care about its people. When you want to use your bitcoin to develop agriculture, start in the rural areas that produces more product. In rural areas, there are many resources that needs to increase and improve so the the production will also increase. Also the farmers are the one who earn less profits, so this time, we need to improve the labor and increase the salary of the workers. Using you bitcoin money, you can make a better country without breaking the laws.

[vintages]

Agriculture and Bitcoin may not sound aggreable or workable in the normal sense. However, where it could help you out is if you buy some Bitcoin hold for sometimes, then sell it when the price increase. You can then use the profit for crop cultivation. However, this may waste a lot of time as agriculture is all about seasons.

Another way is for you to seek out Bitcoin angel investors who can invest in your farm. The are willingly to invest provided you provide valid identification and also perfect plan of how to cultivate health lucrative crops.

Agriculture is a lifetime profitable business. For angel investors, check out https://angel.co/bitcoin/investors

[Jaspion]

Well, Russia is a country with above average acceptance of Bitcoin. You can bargain with your suppliers (for fertilizer and pesticide) and request them to accept Bitcoin as a mode of payment. Apart from Bitcoin, you can implement the Blockchain technology to track the incoming supplies and the delivery of farm products to the whole sale dealers. I think already we have several Blockchain applications for that purpose.

I've heard about big mines in Russia, but never heard about btc atms and/or shops who adopts it

[rockminer1]

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.

I think your meaning is very good for understanding that crypto tokens commonly is looks like as SCAM!

But people are real! Biocoin and kolionovo project are real. And they are not SCAM! I know Biocoin and Kolionovo leaders directly.

I'd like to move forward the question how to get investments for an agriculture people. If tokens are scam, ok. What next?

[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.
...

https://www.agunity.com/
There is also e meetup group with tons of info: https://www.meetup.com/Blockchainfood/

Could you simply write what is project about?

For example: project gives the {} for the {}. You need only {}
Thanks