The combination soil/climate of the area watered by the Royal irrigation Canal of Montcada provides a certain host capacity for different crops. The Mediterranean trilogy - grapevines, olives, and wheat - and a few other crops would be adapted to these natural conditions, and thus had to rely the implementation of irrigation.

However, from an ecological perspective, it must be said that the subtleties of the Mediterranean climatic variations — in between hydric stress or periodic floods and the regular recurrent overflos — or various types of soils, have been crucial elements in the use of cereals for a long time. The agricultural activity in our country and in other parts of the Mediterranean was necessarily sensitive to the multiplicity of micro-environments of the whole macro-region. In this way, the subsistence strategies and options of our ancestors — explains Thomas Glick — as well as the continued cultivation of a surprising variety of different types of cereals, sought to dilute the risk in the operation within a greater number of possible ecological niches. And the same could be said of other species — in this case, the fig tree — as with the almond, carob, olive trees, vineyards, and a smaller number of herbaceous plants, which could grow with a certain reliance and continuity in the alluvial plain of Valencia, once suitably adapted to the indicated climatic variety.

MEDIEVAL PERIOD
(Al-Andalus) [711-1238]

MEDIEVAL PERIOD
(Kingdom of València) [1239-1453]

MODERN PERIOD [1454-1789]

CONTEMPORARY PERIOD [1790-2012]