MCQ
Q.
Which of the following terms is associated with the production of honey?
Correct Answer: A
- Apiculture is the technique of scientific rearing of honey bees in a specially designed wooden box.
- The essential elements for beekeeping are smoker, safety dress, moveable hive, honey extractor and hive tool.
- Sericulture is the process of rearing of silkworms to produce raw silk.
- Sericulture is the production of raw silk by means of raising caterpillars (larvae), those of the domesticated silkworm.
- Silk is a continuous filament within each cocoon.
Additional Information
| Apiculture | The science and art of raising honey bees |
| Pisciculture | Fish farming |
| Agriculture | Farming |
| Silviculture | Cultivating forest trees |
| Vermiculture | Earthworms |
| Pomology | Fruit |


