Bulking of unprocessed seed stocks to obtain larger homogeneous seeds stocks may be permitted provided that the stocks to be bulked meet the following requirements.

• belong to the same certified seed producer;

• belong to the same crop, variety, class of seed and stage in the generation chain;

• were produced in the same season and under similar agroclimatic conditions;

• were subjected to certification under same SCO;

• have more or less similar physical appearance and levels of moisture;

• are adequately homogenous in composition

The produce so bulked should be treated as a single lot for all further certification purposes.  All the S.C. Nos., which has been bulked, should be mentioned in processing report and register. While tagging the smallest S.C. No shall be mentioned along with the word “bulked” in the tags.  If the bulked seed stocks have different months of harvests then the earliest month may be noted for the purpose of constructing lot numbers.  For the purpose of calculating the period for moving the bulked stocks to SPU, the earliest date of harvest should be reckoned.    

Bulking shall be permitted by the Seed Certification Officer under intimation to the ADSCN after verifying the merit of the cases.

Incase of Tomato alone picking wise fruit / seed bulking can be permitted for a maximum of 5 pickings .In such cases the bulked seed lot from the first picking will be considered as “A” lot and subsequent pickings shall be considered as “B”, "C”, "D”, and “E” respectively.

Bulking in Hybrids and in parents is not allowed.