n the two growing season periods (2010 and
2011), the average minimum and maximum temperatures were
16.9 ± 1.0 and 29.0 ± 1.0
◦
C, respectively and the ten-days rainfall averaged through the cropping season was 9.3 ± 1.0 mm. The
organic field trials took place at a privately-owned organic farm
named Morella, which adopted organic management over 10 years,
while the conventional system was managed in fields of the
CRA-ORT experimental farm (Table 2).