The agricultural supply chain platform Entrust – supported by the Australian authority – reportedly revealed its operational launch across the DLT platform Hedera Hashgraph.

Specifically, South Australia’s premier, Steven Marshall, reportedly disclosed the release details of Entrust on September 20, disclosing the target of the platform in the initial phase is to offer protection for the wine and dairy manufacturing sectors, from counterfeit fraud in the international markets, as well as promoting efficiency savings throughout agricultural industries.

Entrust reportedly functions as a software-as-a-service platform, designed to work on the movement tracking task of primary products (wine grapes nominally), throughout the local agricultural supply chain, together with the supply chain of the secondary manufactured products (in this case, the wine itself.)

At the moment, over one dozen firms have registered to be a part of the pilot testing for the beta platform, across South Australia’s Clare Valley wine region, and is reportedly keeping a close watch on the movement of over 250,000 liters of wine.

The platform was co-founded by Grosset Wines’ Jeffrey Grosset, with the Australian authority reportedly greenlit A$150,000 (roughly $109,000) as financial assistance for the initiative. 

“Australia produces almost 2 million tonnes of wine grapes each year. As winemakers see the benefits of securing their Wine Australia Label Integrity Program data on Entrust, it is important the system is fast, cost-effective, secure, and scalable.” Entrust’s technical director, Rob Allen, reportedly spoke highly of Hedera’s scaling capabilities.