Brazil's Agriculture Ministry sets accreditation rules for blockchain crop-tracking firms

• —Regulation MAPA No. 885/2026 was published in the official gazette on October 2
• —Blockchain is listed alongside WORM, digital signatures and hashing as ways to ensure immutability
• —Accreditation lasts 36 months and requires satellite verification of farm boundaries
• —The government will not store copies of farmers' private data on public servers