Rotterdam, Netherlands: D-Farm has won the 2nd Cool Logistics Innovation in Perishable Logistics Award for its innovative use of information technology to boost agricultural production.
D-Farm agriculture system uses blockchain big data to improve transparency and trust along the fresh produce supply chain and was selected by the judges for the innovation that is “a real step forward in achieving collaboration, transparency and visibility in the end-to-end agricultural chain”.
D-Farm’s founder, Venkatesh Babu Vadlamudi, who accepted the award, said that the first phase of dFarm project was to sell the produce before it harvested via information exchange available directly from the farmer on daily harvesting dates and stock availability.
Hemdahl received the Highly Commended Award for its system based on existing telematics data to determine the effect of temperature excursions on food and pharma perishables.
