graniculture

English

Etymology

From Italian granicoltura.

Noun

graniculture (uncountable)

1. Wheat growing.
   • 1912, U.S. Government Printing Office, Congressional Serial Set‎^[1]:

     The industries of the Sacramento basin include mining, smelting, lumbering, dairying, grazing, orchard farming, graniculture, sugar manufacture, and fishing.

   • 1919, Robert Franz Foerster, The Italian Emigration of Our Times‎^[2], volume 20:

     He said, "A large cultural unit, and an agrarian rotation which permits the soil to lie fallow: these are the two salient characteristics of the latifundium and of Sicilian graniculture. If the rains were more abundant we should have rich pastures, plenty of manure, and a totally different agrarian rotation. The want of rains and the scarcity of flowing water thus potently and invincibly influence the entire agrarian economy of Sicily."

   • 1976, K. K. Ruthven, Myth‎^[3]:

     Euhemerists who believed that Ceres was deified for having taught graniculture to grateful Greeks were now informed that this event had taken place in 1030 B.C.