Entrepreneurship opportunities in forestry

Everyone wants to have a white collar job after graduating from the University but the country at present absorbs only few out of thousands of graduates into the labour force. This has increased the rate of unemployment and crime among youths. I have a question for you, rather than been a job seeker, why don't you be a job giver and make your own cool cash without having to serve anyone?

Forestry is one of the sectors in which these entrepreneurship opportunities can be found and they can be established with little or no capital. Hence this post in which I'll show you five entrepreneurship opportunities in forestry but before that, you need to know the definition of keywords in the title.

Entrepreneurship is the art and science of innovation and risk bearing to make profit

Forestry is a branch of science that deals with planting and growing of trees.

Now that we understood what entrepreneurship and forestry means, then we can conclude that a forest entrepreneur is someone who invest into forestry related business in order to make profit from it. Below are some of the entrepreneurship opportunities in forestry.

1. Nursery establishment: a forest nursery is a place where seedlings are raised. With little or no capital, you can actually pick fruit and tree seed from the forests, ochards or any other place it is found then either sell the seeds directly or plant it in a nursery bed till it germinates to a young plant. With time you grow this business into a big thing and you see people patronizing you all over the country.

2. FRUIT COLLECTION: Many time have we seen fruit trees owned by no one in particular growing at some places getting ripe and then rotten, why should you see this precious fruits waste when you can pluck them and sell to people. This requires no capital with %100 profit.

3. BROOM PRODUCTION: Brooms are produced from palm fronds (leaf of palm tree which is a forest tree) and from coconut leaf. Everyone make use of brooms in their home, school, offices and so on therefore why don't you go for broom production by making broom in large quantity and selling to people at a good price. To know how to make a broom click Here.

4. MUSHROOM PRODUCTION: a mushroom is an edible fungi which grows on decay woods. Mushrooms can be produced artificially in a large quantity and sold to people. This requires little capital and you make a high return on it. Don't know how to produce a mushroom, click Here.

5. PRODUCTION OF COOKING UTENSILS FROM BAMBOO: Bamboo is used for variety of things nowadays ranging from utensils, construction, furniture even there are edible bamboo. As said earlier, cooking utensils such as spoon, cups, plates can be made using bamboo. This utensils if made beautifully and attractively can be sold to restaurants, hotels and can be used at home. Click Here or Here to know how to make cooking utensils from bamboo.

I think with this few points I've enlighten you a little bit on entrepreneurship opportunities you can go into that will yield you a reasonable profit. If you know any other entrepreneurship opportunities I'm forestry kindly drop it in the comment box.