Question

Specialized Cultivation Of Fruits And Vegetables Is Called?
(A) Agriculture
(B) Sericulture
(C) Horticulture
(D) Pisciculture

Answer 1

Hint: Cultivation is basically defined as an agricultural practice, which involves the production of food by preparing the land to grow crops on a very large scale. There are mainly two types of cultivation: Intensive cultivation & Extensive cultivation.

Complete answer:
Intensive cultivation, which is also known as intensive farming, is a type of agriculture that is practised where a lot of money and labour is required to increase the land yield that can be obtained from the per area of land.

Sericulture: It is also called silk farming. Sericulture is the cultivation of silkworm which is used to produce silk which is further used in making clothes. The most widely studied form of the silkworm is Bombyx mori. It was initially produced in China.

Pisciculture: It is also called fish farming. This type of cultivation is the one in which we raise the fish commercially in tanks or in some cases in fish ponds. It is the most principal form of aquaculture.
Pisciculture is much different from aquaculture because, in pisciculture, only the cultivation of fish takes place whereas, in aquaculture, the cultivation of other aquatic animals also takes place.

Horticulture: It is another type of agriculture where the plants are cultivated mainly to obtain food, materials, comfort and beauty for decoration. It is also a form of cultivation of fruits, flowers and vegetables for commercial purpose

Apiculture: It is also called beekeeping. Beekeeping is defined as the maintenance of bee colonies which are commonly man-made hives of humans. Its basic use is to increase the production of honey.

Therefore the correct answer is option ‘C’ i.e, Horticulture.

Note: The word horticulture has been made on the basis of the word agriculture, and it comes from the Latin hortus "garden" and cultura "cultivation", from cultus. Hortus is cognitive with the native English word yard (which means a land which is associated to a building) and also the borrowed word garden.