Question

Intensive cultivation of fruits, flowers and vegetables for commercial purpose is called_____
A. Sericulture
B. Pisciculture
C. Horticulture
D. Apiculture

Answer 1

Hint: Cultivation is an agriculture practice, involving the production of food by preparing the land to grow crops on the large scale. There are many two types of cultivation: Intensive cultivation & Extensive cultivation.

Complete answer: Intensive cultivation or intensive farming is the type of agriculture practice where a lot of money and labour is required to increase the yield that can be obtained from per area of land.
-Sericulture: It is also known as silk farming. It is the cultivation of silkworm to produce the silk. The most widely used and studied silkworm is Bombyx mori. It was first produced in China.
-Pisciculture: It is also known as fish farming. It is the type of cultivation in which we raise the fish commercially in tanks or in fish ponds, usually for fish. It is known as the principal form of aquaculture.
Pisciculture is different from aquaculture because pisciculture involves only the cultivation of fish whereas aquaculture involves the cultivation of other aquatic animals.
-Horticulture: It is a type of agriculture in which plants are cultivated mainly for food, materials, comfort and beauty for decoration. It is for the cultivation of fruits, flowers and vegetables for commercial purpose
-Apiculture: It is also known as beekeeping. Beekeeping is the maintenance of bee colonies commonly in the man-made hives of humans. It is used to increase the production of honey.
 So, the correct option is option C. Horticulture

Note: The word horticulture is modeled after agriculture, and comes from the Latin hortus "garden" and cultura "cultivation", from cultus. Hortus is cognate with the native English word yard (in the meaning of land associated with a building) and also the borrowed word garden.