I've had a long distance infatuation with bamboo for 10 years. I want to grow it, build with it, and sell it. I want to make bamboo houses, flooring, cabinetry, boats, furniture and handicrafts. I want the factory to be situated on the plantation, employ a small town of workers, and export worldwide.
It's farmed commercially in many countries. India, the Philippines, China, Thailand, Brazil, etc. There are even plantations in the US and it's a growing crop. If the figures from cost of production and profit per acre from India hold generally true for countries like the Philippines or Paraguay, then after the 5th year, each years profit from selling just the raw material can pay as much as 1/4 the cost of very cheap land (Philippine land at $14.00/square meter in this reckoning).
This website http://www.argentina-estancias.com/infla...rmland.htm suggests Paraguay as having the cheapest politically stable land. It suggests Brazil might also be an option.
Do I want to live in land-locked backwater Paraguay? If you wanted a bamboo farm, where would you put it, for cultural and lifestyle reasons alone?
And if you know anything about land prices and foreign land ownership laws, please let me know details.
Bamboo can grow on marginal farm land, and cost of land would be an important consideration in getting the return on investment ratio high. If you know of expat forums where farm land prices and social concerns are compared between countries, let me know.
It's farmed commercially in many countries. India, the Philippines, China, Thailand, Brazil, etc. There are even plantations in the US and it's a growing crop. If the figures from cost of production and profit per acre from India hold generally true for countries like the Philippines or Paraguay, then after the 5th year, each years profit from selling just the raw material can pay as much as 1/4 the cost of very cheap land (Philippine land at $14.00/square meter in this reckoning).
This website http://www.argentina-estancias.com/infla...rmland.htm suggests Paraguay as having the cheapest politically stable land. It suggests Brazil might also be an option.
Do I want to live in land-locked backwater Paraguay? If you wanted a bamboo farm, where would you put it, for cultural and lifestyle reasons alone?
And if you know anything about land prices and foreign land ownership laws, please let me know details.
Bamboo can grow on marginal farm land, and cost of land would be an important consideration in getting the return on investment ratio high. If you know of expat forums where farm land prices and social concerns are compared between countries, let me know.