Question
The cultivation of high value crops such as vegetables, fruits and flowers is called
Answer (Detailed Solution Below)
Option a: Sericulture
The correct answer is Sericulture
- The cultivation of high-value crops such as vegetables, fruits, and flowers is called horticulture.
- Horticulture: study and practice of growing flowers, fruits, and vegetables commercially.
- The branch of horticulture that deals with the study of fruits and their cultivation is called pomology.
- Sericulture is the branch that deals with cultivation of silkworm, production, and its farming.
- Pisciculture is the branch that deals with the breeding, rearing, and transplantation of fish.
- Apiculture refers to beekeeping, which deals with honey production, pollination, and other bee-related products.
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