What does it take to clothe and feed the people of Sydney for one day?
Every single day, Sydney goes through enormous quantities of goods produced by Australian farmers.
So how much is Sydney consuming? What are the numbers?
Perhaps more importantly,
Where does it all come from?
Scroll down to find out!
Sydney consumes va
st amounts of farmed goods.
Here are just some of the goods that Sydney consumes on a daily basis.
We can thank our farmers for all this produce. No farmers equals no...
Let's find out together.
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In the average day, Sydney will consume...
303,726
kgs of
That's
10,847
pigs, every day,
or
2.9
rashers of bacon per person.
2,090,795
kgs of
That's
8,664,032
fruits and veggies, which
could make
7,057,535
glasses of juice.
1,295,562
kgs of
That's
472,603
kg of chicken,
plus
822,959
eggs.
577,205
kgs of
That's
9,014
animals, or
5,899
lambs and
3,115
cows.
1,817,315
kgs of
from
390,146
dairy cows. It takes
7,776
cows just to make our icecream.
693,151
kgs of
that become
31,543
loaves of bread,
which could make
283,887
sandwhiches.
163,836
kgs of
or
8,191,780,822
grains, taking
about
387,616
L
of water to cook.
12,603
kgs of
which takes
882,191,781
bees.
That's
70,575
kgs of bees.
420,858
kgs of
or
1,854
bales, which takes
170
hectares of land to produce.
212,961
kgs of
which is
17
kg per person per year.
