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In this paper, lesion areas affected by anthracnose are segmented using segmentation techniques, graded based on percentage of affected area and neural network classifier is used to classify normal and anthracnose affected on fruits. We have considered three types of fruit namely mango, grape and pomegranate for our work. The developed processing scheme consists of two phases. In the first phase, segmentation techniques namely thresholding, region growing, K-means clustering and watershed are employed for separating anthracnose affected lesion areas from normal area. Then these affected areas are graded by calculating the percentage of affected area. In the second phase texture features are extracted using Runlength Matrix. These features are then used for classification purpose using ANN classifier. We have conducted experimentation on a dataset of 600 fruits’ image samples. The classification accuracies for normal and affected anthracnose fruit types are 84.65% and 76.6% respectively. The work finds application in developing a machine vision system in horticulture field.