Micro-taggant based agricultural product tracking system for licensed agricultural products and industries

A security system to identify agricultural products, the security system comprising:

• a plurality of micro-taggants applied to each of a plurality of agricultural products, each of the micro-taggants encoding identifier information for each of the respective agricultural products;
• at least one hyper-spectral imaging (HSI) taggant reader operable for reading the micro-taggants applied to the at least one of the plurality of agricultural products;
• at least one nontransitory processor-readable storage medium that stores at least one of processor-executable instructions or data;
• and at least one processor communicably coupled to the at least one nontransitory processor-readable storage medium, in operation the at least one processor:
• determines the identifier information for the at least one of the plurality of agricultural products based at least in part on the reading of the micro-taggants by the at least one hyper-spectral imaging (HSI) taggant reader.