With a thousand mu of bamboo forest at home, how can it be used to greater advantage?

Summary: With a thousand mu of bamboo forest at home, how should it best be used?

For farmers who have a thousand mu of bamboo forest, even without processing it, simply selling the bamboo brings a fairly substantial profit every year. In addition, every winter and spring there is fresh bamboo shoot to dig, so the profit can be said to be even more considerable. As for the crudest agricultural products, it really is hard to sell them at a higher price, and how to add extra value to agricultural products is also a major problem commonly faced by farmers in our country.

Deep processing of agricultural products to raise their value

As for the approach of running a bamboo processing factory, Science Promoting Agriculture is very much in favor of it. Bamboo has an extremely wide range of uses in our country; for example, it can be made into woven bamboo baskets, bamboo mats, ladders, chairs and so on, while bamboo shoot can be made into zha cai, pickles and so on, all of which can raise the value of bamboo.

The key thing is which direction you are more interested in; do your market research well and tap the market, because rushing in blindly still carries a chance of loss. Bamboo processing can certainly raise the added value of bamboo. On previous trips out I once saw artworks processed from bamboo, where the bamboo material was really not much, yet the price could reach several tens of yuan or over a hundred yuan. Of course, for processing industries with such high skill requirements, the threshold may be relatively high. But you can also choose to enter a processing industry with a low threshold.

Build a brand and broaden sales channels

To broaden sales channels for processed products, I personally think you still need to create something distinctive. Everyone knows that agricultural products rich in local character, such as Wuchang rice and Jinxiang garlic, are famous far and wide across the country, whereas for an ordinary bamboo product with no distinctive features at all, it may be hard to stir people's interest. In addition, you can also communicate with some furniture stores to create best-selling products in demand in the market, and adopt order-based processing to avoid processing risks.

I once saw a little story: if a piece of string is sold on its own, it is worth only the price of a piece of string, but if it is used to wrap zongzi, then it is worth the value of zongzi, and if it is used to wrap crabs, then its value equals that of crabs. The same principle applies to bamboo products of this kind; in the end, what value you can sell them for depends on how you add value to them.

Finally, relying on this thousand mu of bamboo forest, if local resources and transportation make it feasible, developing tourism is not a bad way out either; that way you can both reduce tree felling and obtain a substantial economic income. Of course, if you simply sell bamboo plus bamboo shoot, an annual income of several hundred thousand yuan is about right. The key lies in how you choose your path from now on.