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| Opportunities and potential benefits | Challenges and barriers |
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| Food-borne disease risks are reduced when items are of higher quality | Platforms for education and training are limited |
| User friendly for farmers | Market fluctuations and ambiguity |
| Fewer number of frauds due to transparent transactions | Small businesses lack of competence |
| Financial transaction facilitation for every entity in the supply chain | New users may be unable to access marketplaces due to a lack of information infrastructure |
| Enhanced sustainability and reduction of waste | As the technology ahead forms trigonal methods, SMEs have various issues and difficulties while adopting |
| A valuable platform for reducing emissions | Understanding issues among policymakers and technical support staff |
| Pricing is more equitable across the whole value chain | Requirements of IoT/computing equipment |
| Purchase decisions are made by well-informed consumers | Digital gap between developing and developed countries |
| Consumers are well informed about what they are purchasing | Cryptocurrencies market share is dwindling, and there is a lot of volatility (reputation issues) |
| Less reliance on intermediates and third parties | Open technological questions and scalability problems for example transactions latency |
| Insurance policies and financial aids for rural area farmers | Limited flexibility in design decisions [19] |
| Traceability and transparency in value chains | Some food quality factors, particularly environmental indicators, cannot be assessed using objective analytical methods |
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