People have been depending on the soil underneath their feet to support their families for millennia so why shouldn’t you make a name for yourself by growing one of the 10 high margin agricultural products to grow? Agriculture is a tough business for everyone that hasn’t grown up with it but it is also one of the most rewarding and paradoxically – exciting ones to deal with. Growing your own produce or flowers and decorative plants is one thing but if you have it in yourself, you can turn it around and make a highly profitable business with a quicker than average investment return and high-profit margins in no time. Even more, if you already have some land to your name from a relative or just a massive backyard, utilizing it to grow certain types of agricultural products which you will see on this list will not require too much of an investment. The only thing you will really have to invest into is gaining the needed knowledge and learning all the minor but crucial details that go into raising a yielding crop without excessive effort. If you’re interesting in checking out other options, make sure to give our list of 10 high margin food products to build a business around a look.
Although today’s world is too busy to clean, cut up, season and prepare their food and would rather have an aspiring cook in the small restaurant on the corner do it for them, fresh produce (especially gourmet sorts of fruits and vegetables) and herbs see a noticeable rise in demand rates. This is because of people’s tendency to look out for healthier alternatives and the ever-so-quickly growing “organic” movement. What is more, small start-up restaurants and eateries of all sorts really like having a very small-scale, highly specialized supplier of natural, sunlight-grown produce which the big players can’t really supply like them. The same trend follows with florists and decorators who go after the more natural and organic stuff just because of the fad or because of their own doctrines. There a lot of other, more complex factors at play in this too but for the sake of keeping you entertained, we will omit them.
Raising a crop of most things worth going for may not be an easy task and even growing small-scale operations can look like a daunting task at first but like many experienced people in the area can tell you, even if you have learned all the theory by heart, only experience will truly teach you. You also have to be patient with your plants because the only thing that rivals watching paint dry is watching your crops grow and hoping for the process to accelerate. Of course, you would have to aim to grow as organic as possible but you could find that a lot of your produce is attacked by pests and vermins of all sorts or catches some sort of illness. You will have to find the perfect balance and types of treatment that pose the least toxicity. However, the good news is that someone has done it all before you, so all you have to do is learn. Let’s look at some pretty great ideas for an aspiring grower.
10. Herbs
Growing herbs has been an increasingly profitable business ever since restaurants and shops stopped being impressed by the speed and affordability of industrial-grown products. Seasoning, teas, medicine or cosmetics, there is nothing like fresh herbs, no matter what you use them for.
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9. Bamboo
Bamboo is not quite hard to grow at all and is also a very resilient plant. However, it requires patience to grow but pays back extremely well with the growing demand for the material. It finds use in everything from cooking to fashion and musical instruments.
8. Gourmet Garlic
If you happen to not be a vampire and want to try your hand at growing crops for money legally, gourmet garlic is one of the types of produce that can pay your investments back pretty quick.
7. Willows
Willows themselves are a breeze to grow but you will be looking for the special types of thin branches called “shoots” or “rods”. These are extensively used by florists and decorators in their work and are always in high demand
6. Japanese Maple Trees
The Japanese maple trees are not quite what you’d imagine from something called a maple tree. They’re short and extremely beautiful. They do require someone with extreme patience to grow and require a bit of grooming but with low supply and high demand, they can turn out to be extremely profitable.
5. Bonsai Trees
Bonsai trees take the fifth spot in the list of the 10 high margin agricultural products to grow because of their high demand and low supply. They do, however, require quite a bit of patience and skills to get to the point where they’ll bring you more than they were initially worth.
4. Trees and Shrubs Used in Landscaping
Just walk out of your living space into any mediocrely urbanized area and you’ll see hundreds of those everywhere. Landscaping trees and shrubs are specifically selected to be easy to maintain and grow and are always in high demand.
3. Ornamentals
This is a type of shrubs which grow specific, hard and often spiral-like branches which are used in almost every florist’s or decorator’s work. They are easy to find and grow, don’t require too much care and space and are easily sold to a wide range of businesses or just plain normal people with specific hobbies.
2. Gourmet Mushrooms
If you live in an urban area but still have some extra space, don’t hurry up to make your own plant bed and try to get creative with it. Mushrooms, especially of the gourmet kind are extremely popular and easy to grow indoors. They are also quite expensive so a return on your investment would be easy to get.
1. Lavender
Nothing quite compares to the winner in the 10 high margin agricultural products to grow – plain old lavender. This is mainly because lavender is a very versatile, quite sought-after type of plant which can be really profitable really quickly for small-scale growers.
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