Question: The certification mark employed on agricultural products in India is :
Options:
AGMARK
ISI
Hallmark
FPO
🔑Key Points:
-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.
-AGMARK
-​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 Parliament for the AGricultural Procedure (Grading and Marking) Act.
-The present AGMARK standards cover quality guidelines for 205 different commodities spanning a variety of cereals, pulses, vegetable oils, essential oils, fruits & vegetables, and semi-processed products like vermicelli.
-It is legally enforced by the Agricultural Produce (Grading and Marking) Act of 1937 (amended in 1986).
-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.
-AGMARK
-​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 Parliament for the AGricultural Procedure (Grading and Marking) Act.
-The present AGMARK standards cover quality guidelines for 205 different commodities spanning a variety of cereals, pulses, vegetable oils, essential oils, fruits & vegetables, and semi-processed products like vermicelli.
-It is legally enforced by the Agricultural Produce (Grading and Marking) Act of 1937 (amended in 1986).