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The cultivation of aquatic animals or plants for food is called

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aquaculture
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pisciculture
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sericulture
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apiculture
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Solution

The correct option is A aquaculture
Aquaculture is the culture of aquatic plants or animals like fishes in fresh water including molluscs, crustaceans.

The artificial reproduction, rearing and transplantation of fish is called pisciculture. It is also called fish farming or pisciculture.

Sericulture is the process of cultivating silkworms and extracting silk from them.

The scientific method of rearing honeybees is apiculture.

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