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They didn't have any foodto destroy after a long seige, which is why they surrendered.

The Romans sold the Carthagininans into slavery and symbolically sowed a field with salt to declare that Carthage was finished for ever. this didn't destroy food or land - the Romans established a colony for its veterans on the still very fertile site.

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