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Strategies for Enhancement in Food Production
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Which is correctly matched?

  • Apiculture - Honey bee

  • Pisciculture - Silk moth

  • Sericulture - Fish

  • Aquaculture - Mosquito

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Apiculture - Honey bee

Apiculture is the rearing of bee or bee keeping for the production of honey and wax.


Pisciculture (fish culture) is the rearing and breeding of fishes in ponds, artificial water reservoirs.


Sericulture is the rearing of silkworm or mulberry silkworm (Bombyx mori) for commercial production of silk. Caterpillar feeds on mulberry leaves, its salivary gland scretes liquid milk.

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