DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT OF MANGO QUALITY TESTER

Abstract

In agriculture science, automation increases the quality, economic growth and productivity of the country. The export market and quality evaluation are affected by assorting of fruit. The crucial sensory characteristic of fruits is appearance that impacts their market value, the consumer’s preference and choice. Although, the sorting and grading can be done by human but it is inconsistent, time consuming, variable, subjective, onerous, expensive and easily influenced by surrounding. Hence, an astute fruit grading system is needed. Quality determines the shelf-life and selling prices of fresh mango, and therefore quality observation and control of fresh mango are of utmost significance in the processing and management of its supply chain. Mango fruit (mangifera indica) quality methods are mostly destructive in nature. Different mechanical, electromagnetic and non-destructive methods are increasingly important nowadays because of the ease of operation, speed, and reliability of the process This presents a detailed overview of various methods i.e. pre-processing, segmentation, feature extraction, classification which addressed fruits quality based on colour, texture, size, shape and defects