alleryWhat is the rearing of silkworms for silk fibre called?
AApiculture
BSericulture
CPisciculture
DHorticulture
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: B. Sericulture
1. Silk is obtained from the cocoons of silkworms.
2. The worms are fed on green leaves, specially mulberry.
3. Rearing them for silk is called sericulture; apiculture is bee keeping and pisciculture is fish rearing.
_Source: NCERT Class 10 Contemporary India II, Ch 4 Agriculture, Cropping Pattern_
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