AGMARK
| Certifying agency |
Directorate of Marketing and Inspection,Government of India |
 |
| Effective region |
India |
| Effective since |
1986 |
| Product category |
Agricultural products |
| Legal status |
Advisory |
| Website |
agmarknet.nic.in/agm_std1.htm |
| |
|
AGMARK is a certification mark employed on agricultural products in India, assuring that they conform to a set of standards approved by the Directorate of Marketing and Inspection, an agency of the Government of India. The AGMARK is legally enforced in India by the Agricultural Produce (Grading and Marking) Act of 1937 (and ammended in 1986). The present AGMARK standards cover quality guidelines for 205 different commodities spanning a variety of Pulses, Cereals, Essential Oils, Vegetable Oils, Fruits & Vegetables, and semi-processed products like Vermicelli.
The term agmark was coined by joining the words 'Ag' to mean agriculture and 'mark' for a certification mark. This term was introduced originally in the bill presented in the parliament of India for the Agricultural Produce (Grading and Marking) Act.
Agmark Laboratories
The Agmark certification is employed through fully state-owned Agmark laboratories located across the nation which act as testing and certifying centres. In addition to the Central AGMARK Laboratory (CAL) in Nagpur, there are Regional AGMARK Laboratories (RALs) in 11 nodal cities (Mumbai, New Delhi, Chennai, Kolkata, Kanpur, Kochi, Guntur, Amritsar, Jaipur, Rajkot, Bhopal). Each of the regional laboratories is equipped with and specializes in the testing of products of regional significance. Hence the product range that could be tested varies across the centres.
Commodities and tests
The testing done across these laboratories include chemical analysis, microbiological analysis, pesticide residue, and aflatoxin analysis on whole spices, ground spices, ghee, butter, vegetable oils, mustard oil, honey, food grains (wheat), wheat products (atta, suji, and maida), gram flour,soyabean seed, bengal gram, ginger, oil cake, essential oil, oils and fats, animal casings, meat and food products.
Agmark Registration is available for following products
Hides, skins, Goat Hair, Animal Casings, Bristles, Wool, Raw meat (chilled and frozen), Handpicked selected groundnuts, Cashew Kernels, Ambadi seeds, Rape and mustard seeds, Taramira seeds, Groundnuts, Walnuts, Vegetable oil cakes, Ghee, Vanaspati Creamery butter, Essential oils, Vegetable oils, Tobacco, Bura, Sugarcane, Gur (Jaggery), Lac, Arecanuts, Myrobalans, Tendu (Bidiwrapper Leaves), Senna Leaves and pods. Tapioca products (Animals feed) Table Eggs, Honey, Seed less Tamarind, Dried Edible Mushrooms, Saffron, Sheekakai powder, Kangra Tea, Agar Agar, Papain, Rice, Wheat Atta, Pulses, Cereals, Besan (Gramflour), Basmati Rice (Export), Suji and Maida, Grapes, Apples, Alphonso Mangoes-Export, Plants, Alphonso Mangoes Home consumption, Canned, Bottled fruits and fruit products citrus, Table potatoes, William Pears, Kanchan (Bathua), Mangoes, Home consumption, Seed potatoes, Table potatoes Table potatoes (Export), Water chestnuts. Coconuts, Curry Powder, Chillies, Cardamom, Coriander, Garlic, Ginger, Onions, Chillies powder, Poppy seeds, Turmeric, Fennel, Fenugreek and Celery seeds Cumin seeds, Pepper, Ajowan Seeds, (Whole), Sun hemp, Palmyra Fibres, Cotton, Aloe Fibres, Jute.and other products.
Requirement of Agmark Application Proceedings
- Copy of test report(s), duly authenticated, from independent Agmark recognized laboratory.
- Document authenticating establishment of the firm, such as Registration by Company Registrar
- State Authority or Memorandum of Article in case Applicant Firm is a Limited Company
- Partnership Deed in case the applicant firm is under Partnership.
- Name of the products .
- Name of the applicant
- Name of the Firm/ Company
- Address of the Firm/ Company
- Sample of the product(in pouch of 500gm.1kg.
- Statrted Time period of product(specify exact Date/Month/year)
- Total gross product in K.g.(for last year)
- Turnover of last year
|
