Archives of Agriculture and Environmental Science 6(3): 391-396 (2021) https://doi.org/10.26832/24566632.2021.0603020 This content is available online at AESA Archives of Agriculture and Environmental Science Journal homepage: journals.aesacademy.org/index.php/aaes e-ISSN: 2456-6632 ARTICLE HISTORY ABSTRACT Received: 12 June 2021 Revised received: 11 August 2021 Accepted: 11 September 2021 For the past few years, ginger export to India and through India to other countries has become a perennial problem for the farmers and traders. In this paper, we discuss about the impact of blockchain technology in ginger supply chain, which faces intermittent deterring of ginger worth millions in the Nepal-India border. Extensive literature reviews and execution of Delphi method in the study showed that blockchain as an emerging technology capable of transform- ing the food supply chain maintaining transparency in each step. In this paper, we study the potentiality of blockchain technology in transforming the ginger supply chain system through its potential benefts in Nepalese agriculture. The technology is capable of making various aspects of supply chain like tracing, monitoring and sustainability effcient. Thus, can reduce the trade-trust defcit between nations with technology. ©2021 Agriculture and Environmental Science Academy Keywords Agriculture supply chain Blockchain technology Ginger supply chain Simplify supply chain Transparency in supply chain Citation of this article: Thapa, S., Piras, G., Thapa, S., Rimal, P., Thapa, A., & Adhikari, K. (2021). Blockchain-based secured traceability system for the agriculture supply chain of ginger in Nepal: A case study. Archives of Agriculture and Environmental Science, 6(3), 391-396, https://dx.doi.org/10.26832/24566632.2021.0603020 Blockchain-based secured traceability system for the agriculture supply chain of ginger in Nepal: A case study Susan Thapa 1* , Gaetano Piras 2 , Sudesh Thapa 3 , Pravesh Rimal 1 , Aradhya Thapa 4 and Kushal Adhikari 1 1 Department of Agriculture, Purbanchal University, Biratnagar, 56613, NEPAL, 2 Department of Agriculture, University of Sassari, Viale, 14010, ITALY, 3 Golden Gate International College, Sinamangal, Kathmandu, NEPAL, 4 Nobel Academy, New Baneshwor, Kathmandu, NEPAL * Corresponding author’s E-mail: susanthapa002@gmail.com INTRODUCTION Nepal is a land-linked nation with a various bioclimatic zone located at the lap of Himalayas (Rana and Karmacharya, 2014) Agriculture has dominated the economy of Nepal (MoF, 2015; Thapa et al., 2021). Agriculture is the mainstay of not only income but also the main component of food and employment in most of the rural areas of Nepal (CBS, 2009). The agriculture sector of Nepal contributes USD 29.04 billion to Nepal’s GDP, which in percentage translates to 26.4% (MoF, 2019). The various stakeholders in the agriculture sector of Nepal spring with farmers, suppliers of goods and services, food diversifers, distributor, wholesaler, retailers, consumers, national and international governmental organizations (NGOs and INGOs), different branches of governmental organization. The food must go through various stages of value chain before it reaches the customers. The complex phenomenon has various value chain members, who have a distinctive role in delivering the goods and services to the consumers (Leng et al., 2018). The onset of Information and communication technologies, (ICT) and the Internet of Things (IoT) have revolutionized a large number of felds and the agriculture supply chain is also touched from the revolution (Tian, 2017) .These technologies have simplifed the agri-food value chain. Even though the revolutionary technolo- gy is in use, still food value chain which is currently in use is central, monopolistic, asymmetrical, and opaque, all in all is bears a huge trust defcit. Therefore creating a trust defcit among the consumer to be carefree to consume the food, which comes to their plate passing through various stages that are verifed by a spike in numbers of food safety incidents in a couple of years (Tian, 2017). Most of the supply chain that are currently in use often depends on the age-old supply chain system, which is centralized, unreliable, and have many disad- vantages. It is the need of the hour to make a reliable and trustworthy supply chain system, which is much effcient, and trust-worthy (s) (Nakamoto, 2008). A small error in the central- ized supply chain system corrupts the whole system and makes the system prone to error, hacking, corruption, and other ways CASE STUDY