Verifiable farm data for inclusive agricultural markets

Sharing trusted land and sustainability records on the Cardano blockchain for use across multiple applications

More than 100 million smallholder farmers in India operate outside formal economic systems because of the lack of trusted, verifiable agricultural data.

Land boundaries often remain undocumented or disputed, sustainability practices go unrecorded, and historical yield data is fragmented across disconnected systems.

As a result, farmers struggle to access credit, insurance, and premium markets. Agri-Entrepreneurs (AEs) help bridge this gap through local facilitation and advisory services, but without a reliable data infrastructure, they too are constrained. For lenders, insurers, and supply chain participants, the absence of verifiable data means higher costs, greater risk, and no path to scale.

Challenge

Lack of verifiable land ownership and boundaries

Absence of historical sustainability index and yield records

Exclusion from formal credit, insurance, and premium markets

High institutional risk and manual due diligence requirements

Solution

A satellite-verified data foundation for smallholder agriculture

Syngenta Foundation India, together with 5am.Earth, AIQUANT, Anastasia Labs, and Andamio, implemented a Cardano-based satellite oracle that transforms fragmented farm data into persistent, tamper-resistant digital records.

Rather than a single application, the platform functions as shared public infrastructure. Verified land boundaries, sustainability histories, and crop data are recorded once and reused across finance, insurance, government programs, and agricultural trade, enabling independent verification and long-term auditability without centralized control.

Cardano enables trusted agricultural data at a national scale

Turning agricultural data into verifiable infrastructure

How Syngenta Foundation India uses Cardano to open markets for farmers

Farm parcel identity

01.

Farm parcels receive decentralized identifiers linked to satellite-verified boundaries.

Sustainability assessment

02.

Twelve years of biomass and crop data establish verifiable sustainability histories.

On-chain verification

03.

Verified datasets are recorded on Cardano for independent validation.

Institutional integration

04.

Financial, insurance, and trading platforms consume trusted data without intermediaries.

Results

Trusted data unlocks inclusive agricultural ecosystems

01.

Farmer income uplift

Verified data unlocks access to credit, insurance, compliance, and premium markets, with the goal of increasing farmer income by up to 100% within five years.

02.

Expanded service economy

AEs gain new service offerings and earn an incremental USD 120-140 per month through facilitation and advisory services.

03.

Reduced institutional risk

Independent, verifiable data lowers due diligence costs and improves risk assessment for lenders and insurers.

04.

Proven implementation readiness

Mainnet deployment and initial field trials are complete, with over 15,000 farms now registered on-chain.

05.

Scalable by design

The infrastructure supports expansion to one million farmers without proportional increases in operating costs.

"Public blockchain infrastructure enables independent verification at a scale traditional systems cannot match, driving down the cost of information from farm to market and the cost of services from market to farm."

Deepak Ekka

Key Account Manager, Syngenta Foundation India

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