64
4.1.2. Food sector
This sector includes agricultural products (Appendix 7) and livestock products (meat and
derived products). The number of storage facilities was extracted from a census of agriculture
operators (Appendix 5). These structures, described in terms of storage capacity in m
3
, are
converted into a surface area (ha) assuming an average height of five meters (tables 14, 15).
Table 14. Food sector's share in Algiers' urban metabolism (2015)
Component
Required information
Data
Unit
Material
Total crops production
393 10
3
tonnes
Cereals (durum wheat, and spring wheat)
Industrial crops
Dry vegetables
Vegetable crops
Citrus
Vineyards
Fruit trees
5.13
0
0
199
98.7
29.4
0.3
Total production of poultry meat
70 47.1
Other livestock products
Milk
14.03
10
6
Liters
Total livestock
Buffaloes
Cattle
Goats
Horses
Sheep
38 833
521
14429
3614
879
193390
Heads
Energy
Embodied energy (Fertilizers)
Total amount of used fertilizers
12 10
3
tonnes
Production energy
70 358.8 GJ
Operational energy (Fuel consumed during farming)
Agriculture vehicles and equipment
4 438 Unites
Total fuel consumption by equipment
12.79 10
6
Liters
fuel consumption by copping categories
Field crops
32
Industrial crops
Vegetable crops
Fruit trees
0.5
-
7
5.51
Built Land
Storage facilities
380 Unites
Estimated surfaces occupied by storage facilities
(5m high)
2.83 Hectares
32
Agricultural crop cultivated on a large area such as wheat, corn, soybean