Strengthening India’s Grades, Standards and Inspection

Anurag Bhatnagar, IASDirector General

National Institute of Agricultural Marketing, Jaipur

Present Scenario

No common trade language nowPFA –national standards minimumCWC , FCI , Army Supply – different

standardsAgmark standards-181 commodities.Trade has its own standards to followPerhaps present standards are not trade

friendly- one size fits all approach

Agmark Grades

Commodity Coverage : 181 Number. Quality Grading and Certification for : Export Domestic Trade Farm Level Grading : Grading at Producer's Level. Quality Certification Mark : AGMARK

Acts as : Third Party Guarantee to Quality Certified.Legal Backup : Agricultural Produce (Grading andMarking ) Act, 1937 as amended in 1986

Grading

Under Directorate of Marketing and Inspection:-

Centralized and Decentralized grading and grading at producer’s level

A chain of laboratories- more than 1000

CA holders-9534

Name of the Group: No. of commodities notified

1. Food grain and allied products 29

2. Fruits and Vegetables 29

3. Spices and condiments 26

4. Edible Nuts 8

5. Oil Seeds 15

6. Vegetable Oils and Fats 18

7. Oil cakes 8

8. Essential oils 8

9. Fibre crops 5

10. Live stock, Dairy and poultry products

10

11. Other products 25

TOTAL 181

GROUPWISE LIST OF THE COMMODITIES FOR WHICH AGMARK GRADE STANDARDS HAVE BEEN FORMULATED UNDER THE

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE (GRADING AND MARKING) ACT, 1937

LIST OF COMMODITIES FOR WHICH GRADE STANDARDS HAVE BEEN PRESCRIBED UNDER THE

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCE (GRADING AND MARKING) ACT, 1937

I. FOOD GRAINS AND ALLIED PRODUCTS

1. Paddy 2. Wheat 3. Jowar 4. Maize 5. Barley 6. Bajra 7. Ragi8. Rice 9. Basmati Rice (export) 10. Red Gram 11. Green Gram 12.Black Gram 13. Bengal Gram 14. Lentil 15. Moth 16. Peas 17. WheatAtta 18. Suji 19. Maida 20. Bread Wheat Flour 21. Besan (GramFlour) 22. Wheat Porridge (Dalia)Roasted Bengal Gram, Vermicelli,Macaroni, Spaghetti, Rajma, Lobia, Kabuli chana

II. FRUITS AND VEGETABLES

1. Apples 2. Banana 3. Grapes 4. Mango 5. Pine apple 6. Plums 7.William Pears 8. Oranges 9. Lemons 10. Sweet Limes 11. SourLimes 12. Grape fruits 13. Table Potato 14. Seed Potato 15. Onions16. Dried edible mushrooms 17. Canned/Bottled fruits and fruitproducts 18. Kinnow Oranges 19. Guavas 20. Litchi21. Pomegranate 22. Ribbed Celery 23. Headed Cabbages24. Brussels sprouts 25. Tomatoes 26. Papayas 27. Shelling Peas28. Sugar Snap Peas 29. Spinach

III. SPICES AND CONDIMENTS

1. Chillies 2. Turmeric 3. Cardamom 4. Pepper 5. Celery seed 6.Cumin 7. Poppy Seed 8. Ajowain 9. Saffron 10. Garlic 11.Ginger 12. Coriander 13. Fennel 14. Fenugreek 15. Currypowder 16. Compounded asafetida 17. Seedless Tamarind 18.Sundried raw mango slices 19. Sundried raw mango powder 20.Nutmeg 21. Tejpat 22. Clove 23. Mace 24. Large Cardamom 25.Mixed Masala 26. Caraway and Black Caraway

IV . EDIBLE NUTS

1.Arecanuts 2. Walnuts 3. Cashew Kernels 4. Raw Cashew nuts5. HPS Ground nuts 6. Water chestnuts 7. Coconuts 8. BallCopra and Cup Copra

V. OILSEEDS

1. Groundnuts 2. Rapeseeds 3. Mustard Seeds 4. TaramiraSeeds 5. Sesamum Seeds 6. Niger Seed 7. Linseed 8.Safflower Seed 9. Sunflower Seed 10. Cotton Seed 11.Mahua Seed 12. Salseed 13. Ambadi seed 14. Castor seed 15.Soyabeans

VI. VEGETABLE OILS AND FATS

1. Groundnut Oil 2. Mustard Oil 3. Sesamum Oil 4. Coconut Oil5. Niger Seed Oil 6. Sal Seed Oil (Fat) 7. Linseed Oil 8. Safflowerseed oil 9. Cotton Seed Oil 10. Rice bran oil 11. Castor oil12. Vanaspati 13. Blended Edible Vegetable oil 14. Sun Flower Seed Oil15. Maize Corn Oil 16. Mahua oil (Mowrah oil) 17. Soyabean Oil18. Fat Spread.

VII. OIL CAKES

1. Groundnut oil cake 2. Cotton seed oil cake 3. Linseed oil cake4. Mustard seed oil cake 5. Sesamum oil cake 6. Coconut oil cake7. Safflower oil cake 8. Niger seed oil cake

VIII. ESSENTIAL OILS

1. Sandalwood oil 2. Lemon grass oil 3. Palmarosa oil 4. Gingergrassoil 5. Oil of Vetiver (Khus) 6. Oil of vetiver roots (cultivated)7. Eucalyptus oil 8. Himalayan cedarwood oil

IX. FIBRE CROPS

1. cotton 2. Jute (raw) 3. Sannhemp 4. Palmyra fibre 5. Aloe fibre

X. LIVESTOCK DAIRY AND POULTRY PRODUCTS

1. Wool 2. Bristles 3. Goat Hair 4. Hides 5. Skins 6. Animal casings 7.Raw Meat (Chilled/Frozen) 8. Table eggs 9. Creamery butter 10. Ghee

XI OTHER PRODUCTS

1. Honey 2. Bura 3. Sugar Cane gur (jaggery) 4. Agar-Agar 5. Kangra Tea 6. Isubgol husk 7. Papain 8.Catechu 9. Senna leaves 10. Senna pods 11. Guar gum12. Gum Karaya 13. Myrobalan 14. Tendu Leaves15. Sheekakai Powder 16. Lac 17. Tobacco 18. DriedTamarind 19. Tamarind Seed and powder 20. Tapiocasago (sabudana) 21. Tapioca products (Animal feed)22. Desiccated Coconut 23. Cocoa Powder 24. CocoaBeans 25. Makhana

Standards under Different Acts

Different Acts Agricultural produce (grading and marking)

Act,1937 as amended in 1986 Prevention of Food Adulteration Act,1954 Food products order,1956 Meat and food products order,1973 Export Quality control and inspection

Act,1963 Milk Food product order

Proposed Integrated Food Law

At present multiplicity of food laws.

Integrated food law: traceability single authority

Need for having modern IFL.

Draft Food Safety and Standards Billfinalized by MOFPI.

Proposed Integrated Food Law

Main Features :Single reference point for quality and

safety standards regulations andenforcement.

Independent Food Safety and StandardsAuthority India.

Food includes primary food, alcoholicdrinks. Does not include water.

Integrated response to strategic issues –novel, GM food, international trade

Proposed Integrated Food LawShift from regulatory regime to self compliance

through FSMS( Food safety managementsystem)

Separate chapter on General Principles of FoodSafety.

Endeavor to achieve ALOP of human life.Provision for Risk Management.Regulations and standards to be based on

prevalent agricultural, handling and storagepractices and transport conditions in the countryand international standards and practices.

Suggestions

Harmonization of quality and safetystandards with international standards.

Developing IndiaGAP standards

Promotion of marketing extension-marketing cell to be in all the linedepartments- Horticulture, animalhusbandry

Suggestions Quality and grade consciousness amongst consumers

to be enhanced through awareness programmes.

Farmers should get prices commensurate with grades

Promotion of integrated supply chain in place of thepresent fragmented one through contract farming anddirect marketing

Reforms in the overall agricultural marketing system– introduction of good marketing practices, hazardanalysis and critical control points.

Promotion of processing Every state to have its own Standards Making Bureau

under Marketing Boards..

SuggestionsImplement the Identified ReformMeasures Promote competitive agricultural markets in

private and co-operative sector.

Encourage Direct Marketing and ContractFarming programmes.

Facilitate procurement of agricultural producedirectly from farmer’s fields.

Establish effective linkages between farmproduction and Retail Chains.

Contd….

Facilitate Private Investment in owning,establishing and operating markets.

Public-Private-Partnership to promoteprofessionalism in existing markets.

Stepping-up of Pledge Financing and MarketingCredit.

Introduction of Negotiable Warehousing ReceiptSystem in Rural Storage Projects.

IT to Promote Trade and Market led ExtensionServices.

Design of NIAM – USAID Project

Strengthening of Agricultural

Marketing

Capacity enhancement in

Grading and Standardization

Capacity enhancement in Quality and Safety issues

Capacity enhancement in Marketing Extension

Capacity enhancement

in Market News

Setting up National

Resource Centre

Capacity enhancement

in Terminal Markets

Progress of the USAID-NIAM Project

Three Pilot States - Rajasthan- Karnataka- Himachal Pradesh

Training Needs Assessment done

USAID-NIAM INITIATIVE

Capacity Building of the states forpromotion of quality and safety issues andgrades and standards, marketing extension

Master training completed for three pilotstates

GAP to be developed and promoted for atleast two commodities for each of the pilotstates H.P, Rajasthan, and Karnataka

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