<Tr> <Th> Legal status </Th> <Td> Advisory </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Website </Th> <Td> agmarknet.nic.in/agm_std1.htm </Td> </Tr> <P> 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 Head Office at Faridabad (Haryana) is legally enforced in India by the Agricultural Produce (Grading and Marking) Act of 1937 (and amended in 1986). The present AGMARK standards cover quality guidelines for 222 different commodities spanning a variety of pulses, cereals, essential oils, vegetable oils, fruits and vegetables and semi-processed products like vermicelli . </P> <P> 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 . </P>

Grading and standardisation of agricultural produce in india