The book titled “Old challenges and new perspectives in Fruit Crops cultivation” is a compilation of lectures by eminent authors like Dr.S.Sathiamoorthy, former Director National Research Centre for Banana, Trichy, Dr.N.Kumar, former Dean ( Hort), TNAU and people alike. This book is brought out to update the knowledge of scientific community on some aspects of fruit crops research. The chapters were so designed such that important areas like breeding, management, nutrition, post harvest technology, etc., are covered. Other relevant areas like nano technology, remote sensing and GIS applications in fruit crops etc are also covered to have a comprehensive understanding of the subject.