Bamboo plantation business

▪ Profitable: Will the enterprise make money in the future?
▪ Scalable: Does the company have the potential to become much bigger than it is today?
▪ Replicable: Can this concept be replicated in other regions by other businesses?
▪ Environmentally beneficial: Does the enterprise result in degraded lands being restored?
▪ Socially beneficial: Does the company have a positive impact on people?

There is a lot of interest in investing in bamboo forests; we can frequently come across advertisements and announcements that invite investors to get closer to this world.

The positive sides of this investment that are highlighted are an excellent advantage for the environment and a high economic return for many years.

As we saw in the previous chapter, bamboo is a plant that generally overgrows in nature and reaches heights unattainable by other plants belonging to the same family.
Bamboo begins to grow in spring and continues to grow in summer and autumn. Indeed, in these seasons, it grows faster than in spring.
When evaluating an investment in bamboo, the thing to consider is precisely the difficult prediction of how much bamboo plantation can grow.

Considering that bamboo is a green plant with leaves for 12 months of the year, the environmental advantage in terms of oxygen is quite clear.
Most fruit trees in winter completely lose their leaves and therefore do not release oxygen into the air and do not function as a lung for the environment.

This is a sustainable economy; a bamboo forest will bring profits to the owner and the environment and, therefore, to the whole community.
Bamboo is not a typical tree plant; it can retain about three times the CO2 of a similar plant.
There are over 50 million hectares of bamboo forests globally, and it is one of the most important plants for purifying the air of our planet and reducing pollution and CO2.
Bamboo plantation can also reclaim land polluted by metals and therefore could be used to restore land after the presence of factories or other polluting activities.
We must also consider that a bamboo forest will soon become a natural habitat for many animals that are slowly losing their habitat and, therefore, help the world with species’ biodiversity.
From the point of view of the environmental impact, a bamboo forest is magnificent when viewed from the sky.
The sprouts can enter the vegan food sector and the timber to enter the plastic, paper, clothing, and wood sectors.
Only organic bamboo cultivation will have to be considered if you want to enter the food sector.

We have grown our bamboo plantation, but who do we sell it to? Remember that it will be challenging for small investor to sell their product on their own.

Read More on NTFP SME Bamboo Plantation Project ( link Factsheet)