Judging and valving crop grading of farm products

1. PRESENTATION ON
JUDGING OF CROPS
 By ankit sharda

2. JUDGING AND VALVING CROP
GRADING OF FARM PRODUCTS

3. Introduction
 Agriculture is the backbone of Indian economy as over 75% of its
population is directly or indirectly engaged in this profession.
 Food grading involves the inspection ; assessment and sorting of
various foods regarding quality ;freshness; legal conformity and
market value.
 Machinery is also used to grade food; and may involve sorting
products by size;shape and quality .

4.  For example , machinery can be usd to remove spoiled food from
fresh product . Fresh products is expected to conform to specific
criteria such as
1. Weight 6. density
2. Size 7. hygiene
3. Shape 8. labelling requirement
4. Density
5. Firness

5. Certification marks in india
 AGMARK
 BIS HALL MARK
 FPO MARKS
 INDIA ORGANIC
 FSSAI

6. AGMARK
 Agmark is an acronyum for agriculture marketing and is used to certify
the food products for quality control
 Agmark has been dominated by other quality standards including the
non- manufacturing standard IS09000

7.  Fpo marks is a certification marks mandatory on all processed fruit
products sold in india such as packaged fruit beverages , fruits –
jam and fruit- extract .
 Certication agencies : ministry of food processing
 Smt harsimrat kaur badal is leading the food processing industry .
Headquarter is in new delhi
FPO [fruit product order]

8. India organic
 India organic is a certification mark for
organically farmed food products manufacturing
in india .
 The certification marks certifies then an organic
food product
 Certifiying agency – APEDA
 APEDA agriculture and processing food product
exports development authority (2002)

9. FSSAI
 FSSAI stands for food safety and standard authority of
india
 Found in 2011 (headquarter at new delhi )
 FSSAI is responsible for protection and promotion
public health through the regulation and supervision of
food safety

10. Rita teotia is the current
chairperson for fssai and pawan
kumar Agarwal is the current
chief excutive officer for fssai
harsh Vardhan hold the cabinet
rank of minister of health and
family
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11. Story of FSSAI

12. GRADING OF CROPS
The crop are mainly classified into quality , grades
based on the following parameter
 Size
 Shape
 Colour
 Texture
 Stage of maturity
 The presence of disease or any physical
deformation

13. Types of grading
Grading of fruits
Grading of vegetables
Grading of crops

14. Grading of fruits
 Grading of Fruit. grouping fruit by size; one of the
operations in the market processing of fruit.
Depending on the biological characteristics of the
variety, fruit is divided into four, five, or more grades.
 Grading is done by hand (comparing to standard
samples) or on grading machines (according to weight
or size).

15. Grading of fruits

16. Grading of vegetables
 The grades of fruits and vegetables are set by the
United States Department of Agriculture
 . The purpose of these standards is to describe in a
uniform language the quality and condition of
commodities to the produce industry. ...
 The USDA maintains a list of fruits and
vegetables and their specific grades on its website.