During the last 50 years, vegetable production has increased tremendously due to enhanced consumption of chemical fertilizers. Now, there are indications that the highly productive fertilizer and seed technologies introduced over the past several decades may be reaching a point of diminishing returns.Health and ecological hazards and depletion of non-renewable sources of energy etc. are some of the features of long-term usage of indiscriminate and unbalanced chemical fertilizers. Tomato is one of the most important vegetable crop of the world grown over an area of 3.95 million...