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  • ____ is known as viticulture.

    Question: ____ is known as viticulture.

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    growing vegetables, flowers and fruits
    cultivation of grapes
    breeding of fish
    rearing of silkworms

    🔑Key Points:
    -Viticulture is the cultivation and harvesting of grapes.
    -When the grapes are being used specifically for wine production, the study of grapes can also be called viniculture.
    -Both viniculture and viticulture fall under the umbrella of horticulture.
    -Viticulture as a science and pursuit, has existed as long as humans have been making and drinking wine.
    -The most common grapevine, Vitis vinifera, has been cultivated and fermented by humans since at least the neolithic era.

    🔴Additional Information:
    -The science and art of growing fruit, vegetable, flowers and fruits is known as Horticulture.
    -Breeding of fish
    -Fish farming or raising the fishes in tanks or ponds is called Pisciculture.
    -The most important species which are being raised worldwide are Tilapia, Salmon, Carp, and Catfish.
    -Pisciculture provides more than 50% of seafood in the world.
    -It helps in development by means of generating employment in the fishing community.
    -Freshwater Cultivable Fishes: Catla, Rohu, Mrigal, Catfishes, Murrels, and Tilapia
    -Marine water cultivable fishes: Sea bass, Grey mullet, and Milk Fish
    -Fishery By-products: Fish Oil (comprises of liver and body oil), Fish meal
    – Rearing of silkworms
    -Sericulture is related to the rearing of silkworms.
    -Sericulture is an agro-based industry.
    -It involves the rearing of silkworms for the production of raw silk.
    -India is the second-largest producer of silk within the globe.

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