Storing data of sugarcane industry processes using blockchain technology.

Advances in information and communication technology (ICTs) have reduced physical, political and cultural barriers among nations. Furnished with equipment and sensors, and without connection limit, world population exercises globally its power of choice, creating reality out of Big Data, where high data and information volume on tendencies and demands reflect, among other features, cultural and psycho-social manifestations. Organizations involved with science and technological innovation are increasingly being required to invest heavily in tools and processes that support forecasting technological needs and on future demands on goods and services- which are more and more diffuse and dynamic - is essential for research and innovation organizations. This document describes specifically an agricultural industry context that is marked by the age of Big Data, generating high data volume that needs to be organized, stored and processed for generating knowledge, more specifically, this work deals with storing data of sugarcane processes using blockchain technology for control processes and tracking purposes. This work presents a prototype of the use of blockchain within the scope of a government project developed between the Embrapa - Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation, and the Coplacana - Sugarcane Planters Cooperative located in the state of São Paulo, Brazil.