Question

The silk industry is related to………..
A)Sericulture
B)Apiculture
C)Pisciculture
D)Horticulture

Answer 1

Hint: The silk industry in India is one of the oldest industries in India and plays a key role in the Indian Textile Industry. The production of raw silk is carried out by the means of raising caterpillars (larvae). Majorly, four types of natural silks are produced around the world.

Complete answer:
The process of cultivating silkworms and then extracting silk from them is known as Sericulture.
The most commonly used silkworm species are Bombyx mori also known as domestic silkmoth in sericulture. While in the production of ‘wild silks’ some other varieties of silkworms (such as Eri, Muga, and Tasar) are cultivated. In many countries, Sericulture is a very important domestic industry, and India and China are the world’s leading producers of silk that produces around 60 % of global production.
The other name for Sericulture is silk farming in many places where people raise the silkworms and then processing the fibers they produce which are further combined into silk threads. These silk threads can then be twisted into silk-yarn or woven into silk cloth.

Additional Information: Apiculture - is maintaining the man-made hives and the bee colonies. Primarily, the genus Apis is the most common bees are the honey-producing bees and other than that Melipona stingless are also maintained. People involved in Apiculture - an apiarist or beekeeper keeps the bees to collect the honey and other products and sometimes to pollinate the crops. The location for keeping the beehives are called ‘bee yards’.
Pisciculture - This involves artificial reproduction, rearing, and transplantation of fish. In common language also called fish farming. This also includes the commercial raising of fish in large containers or enclosures, typically for food. Some common Fish species from fish farms include cabbage, tilapia catfish, and salmon.
Horticulture - is essentially the science and art of developing sustainable cultivation of food and plants. There are a variety of crops included in Horticulture like the annual and perennial species fruits and vegetables, and decorative indoor and landscape plants.
So, the correct answer is, “Sericulture”

Note: -An agro-based industry that involves the rearing of the silkworms for the production of raw silk is known as Sericulture.
-Among these yarn produced, mulberry silk is the most prevalent and contributes as much as 90 percent of world production. This is the reason the term ‘silk’ in general referred to the silk of the mulberry.
Eri silk; Tasar silk; and Muga silk are the three other commercially important categories of silks.