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Grading of fruits based on their ripeness has been a topic of research for the last two decades. Identifying the ripened mangoes has become more of an art than science and is a challenging task. This study aims at introducing a system to grade mangoes with four classes based on their ripeness. The study was demonstrated through an extensive experimentation on a newly created dataset consisting of 981 images of Alphonso mango variety belonging to four classes viz., under-ripen, perfectly ripen, over-ripen with internal defects and over-ripen without internal defects. In this study, a hierarchical approach was adopted to classify the mangoes into the four classes. At each stage of classification, L*a*b color space features were extracted. For the purpose of classification at each stage, a number of classifiers and their possible combinations were tried out. The study revealed that, the Support Vector Machine (SVM …