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Cotton is susceptible to several diseases, including leaf spot, target spot, bacterial blight, nutrient deficiency, powdery mildew, leaf curl, etc. Accurate disease identification is important for taking effective measures. Deep learning in the identification of plant disease plays an important role. The proposed model based on meta Deep Learning is used to identify several cotton leaf diseases accurately. We gathered cotton leaf images from the field for this study. The dataset contains 2385 images of healthy and diseased leaves. The size of the dataset was increased with the help of the data augmentation approach. The dataset was trained on Custom CNN, VGG16 Transfer Learning, ResNet50, and our proposed model: the meta deep learn leaf disease identification model. A meta learning technique has been proposed and implemented to provide a good accuracy and generalization. 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