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Conflicts of Interest: Based on my understanding, this article has no conflicts of interest.
Funding Support: This article has not been funded by any organizations or agencies. This independence ensures that the research is conducted objectively and without external influence.
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Data Access Statement and Material Availability: The adequate resources of this article are publicly accessible.
Authors Contributions: Each author has individually contributed to the article. Iita Anatolia contributed to the development and fine-tuning of lightweight CNN models, the implementation of the blended-dataset pipeline, and data analysis for multiclass classification of tomato leaf diseases. Srinu Sesham conceptualized the study, designed the experiments, data analysis, and contributed to writing and revising the manuscript. Mateus Abisai was responsible for model performance validation, comparative analysis of VGG16, ResNet50, and MobileNetV2, and revising the manuscript. Kennth Gideon: Responsible for Model performance validation and proofreading.