Standardization of products of other extractive industries-mining and forestry
Standardization of manufactured goods.
Control of standards Control of standards may be undertaken by several agencies etc. the various agencies that can control the standards are as follows.
Agencies of the Government: In India, the state and local Governments control the standards for weights and measures and the purity of good products.
Produce Exchange: Produce or commodity exchanges also exercise control over the quality of the products traded in the exchange.
Trade association: Trade association exercise control over the quality of the products of their members. Eg: East India cotton Association, the Bombay oilseeds and oil exchange, etc control the quality of the products of their respective industries.
Industrial users or manufacturers exercise control over the quality of the products which they buy as raw materials. They can control the quality of the raw materials by insisting on the supply of raw materials of specific quality.
Farmers: By using scientific fertilizers and adopting better methods of cultivation can exercise some control over the quality of control.
Consumer: They can exercise certain degree of control over the quality of the goods by forming associations and fight for the improvement of the quality of the products by refusing to buy the goods which are below certain standards goods graded before they are marked.
Standardization in India: Standardization movement is of recent development. It was introduced only in 1937. Today a god number of agricultural commodities and manufactured goods of the country are standardized and graded.
Agencies concerned with standardization There are many agencies concerned with the standardization and grading of agricultural and manufacture goods.
The central agricultural marketing department
The Directorate of marketing and Inspection
The central and state warehousing corporations and grading of agricultural commodities.
The Indian Standards Institute under take the standardization and grading of Agricultural commodities and manufactured goods.
CERTIFICATION:
Certification on products is useful to both manufacturers and consumers. For the manufacturers they provide a third party guarantee of quality which helps to increase their sales potential. It also protects them from exploitation by Inspecting staff. For the consumers marking ensures that the products meet normally expected requirements. Manufacturers having requisite production and testing facilities may apply for a license under the certification scheme of the Bureau.
Certification marks:
The certification marks include Agmark, PFA standards, FPO certification, ISI mark, ISO 9000 standards etc.
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