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Tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum Mill.) is one of the most popular fruit vegetable of the family Solanaceae, grown in the world. The cultivated tomato originated in wild form in the Peru-Ecuador-Bolivia area of the Andes in South America. The leading tomato producing countries are the USA, several European countries, Japan and China. In India, tomato has wider coverage of the land area in comparison to other vegetables. During the decades, the concept of integrated nutrient management aims at efficient and judicious use of all major sources of plant nutrients in an integrated manner so, as to get maximum economic yield without any deleterious effect on physiological and biological properties of the soil. The integrated use of nutrients actually resulted in rapid cell division, multiplication and cell elongation in meristematic region of plant which promoted vegetative growth of the plant in the form of plant height and …