Sericulture is the rearing of which of the following?
- A.Honey bees
- B.Silkworms
- C.Earthworms
- D.Fish
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Explanation
The correct answer is B, silkworms. Sericulture is the rearing of silkworms for the production of raw silk, and it includes the growing of mulberry, on whose leaves the mulberry silkworm feeds; India produces mulberry silk as well as the wild varieties tasar, eri and muga, the last being special to Assam. Option A is wrong because the keeping of honey bees is apiculture. Option C is wrong because the rearing of earthworms, usually for vermicompost, is vermiculture. Option D is wrong because the rearing of fish is pisciculture, and the farming of aquatic organisms in general is aquaculture. Papers very often set these four terms against one another, so learn sericulture, apiculture, pisciculture and vermiculture as a group. A further point is that the four varieties of Indian silk, mulberry, tasar, eri and muga, are frequently asked together, and that the Central Silk Board is the body that promotes sericulture in the country.
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