“…As detailed below, this work is also one of the few ones addressing organic vegetable productions. At a country level, EMA has been so far applied to conduct evaluations of national agriculture in China (Chen et al, 2006;Tao et al, 2013;, Denmark (Rydberg & Haden, 2006), India and Pakistan (Ali et al, 2019), Korea (Lee et al, 2005); Japan (Gasparatos, 2011); Puerto Rico (González-Mejía & Ma, 2017, Poland (Lewandowska-Czarnecka et al, 2019, and the United States of America (Park et al, 2016). At a regional or provincial level, Lefroy and Rydberg (2003) focused on three crops in southwestern Australia; Wang et al (2007) studied petroleum-based agriculture in the Shandong region, China; De Barros et al (2009) evaluated the banana production in Guadalupe, Antilles; Agostinho et al (2010) explored the agricultural economic sector of São Paulo state, Brazil, while Ghisellini et al (2014) did the same for regions Campania and Emilia Romagna, Italy; three cropping systems in the Pampa Region, Argentina, were addressed by Ferraro and Benzi (2015); and Su et al (2020) have recently assessed three types of agricultural production in Tongxiang, China.…”