These days, I find the newspapers highly infested with classifieds on profitable business opportunities with consumer food products. Mushroom and fish trading are flourishing business opportunities, along with a lot of other items like soybean, palm oil, sugar 11, rubber etc. These days, when recession is the single most dominating phase of the current economy, you cannot probably thinking of making investments in the conventionally high investment options like diamonds, gold, silver, or crude oil. A wiser option would be to trade with products of everyday usage. Just weigh the advantages for yourself. They don?t require high investments and the demand for these products is very high, rather more than the supply. Products like soybean, cocoa, wood etc. which were not very popular a few years ago are selling like hot cakes. Kudos to all those health and environmental researchers who are discovering the extra ordinary worth of these apparently ordinary products ! Let?s take a binocular view at these products one by one.
organic farming Mushrooms
A rich source of anti-cancer, anti-viral and immunity boosting substances; edible mushrooms are a hot business option these days. Apart from edible uses, mushrooms are used for other purposes such as dyeing natural fabric. Mushrooms, for business, are very easy to cultivate. You just need a 5-6 ft tub where you can grow them. There are many mushroom trading companies asking people to cultivate mushrooms at home so that they can buy them from you once you grow them. So you needn?t be worried about your products not getting sold. They?ll supply you the cultivation infrastructure if you want. You can start by installing a unit in your own house. Place on your terrace, in the balcony or in the garage and grow them. A little bit of supervision and timely care is all that is required to make your mushroom business a thriving one.
Organic Farming
With the pro-environmental endeavors and growing awareness of the harmful effects of chemical substances, organic farming seems to be a lucrative business option. If you have about a minimum of 10,000 sq. ft area of land at your disposal, you can start off with cultivation of?? organic vegetable and fruit crops. As no expensive chemical fertilizers or pesticides are used, and the plants are grown using only natural fertilizers like animal manure and compost, your investment will not burn a hole in your pocket. You can join organic farmer?s associations that will market your products at good profits.
Soybean
soybeansSoybean, a legume, popularly used in Asian cuisines (specifically Chinese) is fast gaining significance in the Western cuisines, as well, for its nutritive and medicinal worth. With the Food And Drug Administration (FDA) certifying soyfood as the official cholesterol reducer, the demand for this, otherwise less known bean, has increased manifold. According to the FDA,?25 grams of soy protein a day, as part of a diet low in saturated fat and cholesterol, may reduce the risk of heart disease.?
No wonder soybean trading seems to be one of the most profitable inexpensive business ventures that you can contemplate. Investing in Soybean Futures is going to fetch you some good returns in the near future. For the uninitiated, a Futures is a contract in which a buyer agrees to buy your product at a future date at the prevalent market price on that date.? The Chicago Board of Trade, The South African Futures, Exchange and Dalian Commodities Exchange are some of the major Soybean Futures contractors. According to the Soyabean Market Review the average market price of South Dakota Soybean as on the 7th of August 2009 was $10 .78 /bushel, a marked increase by 64 percent from last week prices. The encouraging growing trends in market price should coax you into investing in the soybean business. The prices follow a trend, rising in summer months and falling in the monsoons. Though a flourishing business proposal, soybean trading follows a bumpy path from the months of July-November, with a high demand in the summer months interrupted by natural adversities, such as floods or draughts.
Rubber
?Bend it like rubber? is a saying with good reason. Today, rubber finds diverse use in both its natural and synthetic form. Natural rubber, made from latex extracted from the rubber plants, is put to a lot of use. Household accessories, window profiles, hoses matting, anti-vibration mounts used by the automotive industry, are only some of the uses of this commodity that finds. Rubber tires are one of the most important products of rubber without which mobility could have come to a halt. Children use rubber erasers and pencils. Its elastic property is put to good use by the textile industry.
I can go on and on about the uses of rubber, but what I want to impress upon you is that investing in natural rubber trading can be a lucrative business option for you because you?ll simply have a big flow of customers. Produced mostly in Malaysia, India, China and other Asian countries, rubber Futures can be signed with Asian companies. You can sign with non-Asian companies too. Tokyo Commodity Exchange (TOCOM) trades on rubber Futures.? You can check out the latest quote prices on this website. The Singapore Commodity Exchange and the Bangkok Commodity Exchange are other platforms for you to sign up rubber Futures.
Pork Bellies
When you drool over that dongporou or Smageyopsal, next time, think about trading on it as well, because pork bellies seem to an attractive trading option these days. Of course, there are ups and downs in the market demand but you can always sign up a Futures contract with the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Most types of bacon are made from pork bellies and that?s why the demand for this pig stomach meat is quite high.? You trade in 20 tons of frozen and trimmed pork bellies, as a unit. The pricing depends on the region of origin of the pork and also the season in effect. Pork bellies Futures of Infinity Trading Corporation quote $ 0.0001 per pound.
Palm Oil
Palm oil extracted from the oil palm Elaeis Guineensis is widely used cooking oil, in margarine, in processed foods, soaps and personal care products. I wouldn?t recommend palm oil for cooking owing to the cholesterol controversy. But as a biofuel, I echo the opinion of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) that I can be used as an effective remedy for the greenhouse gas emissions. Read the Read the CSIRO report on palm oil biofuel by autobloggreen. The palm oil price quotes of the Commodity and Monetary Exchange of Malaysia(COMMEX) can be found here.
Wool
Apart from the basic usage of wool, i.e for making warm garments, wool is being used for making insulation, upholstery and horse saddle cloths. High quality wool like the Australian Merino is sold at very high prices. You can invest in wool futures at the Tokyo Commodity Exchange. Australia is the biggest wool producer and you can buy it at Australian Wool Exchange.
Cocoa
Do you think investing in the irresistible chocolate substance, cocoa, can be unprofitable? No, not certainly! Apart from its mesmerizing taste when morphed into a confectionary, cocoa is finding recognition as cardiovascular beneficiary! So remove that myth that chocolate is bad for health and eat to your heart?s content. Along with that sign up a cocoa futures and your returns will be as delicious as chocolate. As it thrives in a highly selective natural environment, the plant cannot be grown anywhere on earth. Ivory Coast and Ghana are the major producers. According to a recent Reuters report Cocoa futures rose very recently. You can check out the Cocoa Futures Quotes.
Live Cattle and Hogs
Live cattle including bovines and hogs are traded for beef to the meat eating countries. They are sold in weight and not in numbers in units of 40,000 pounds. A cow or a calf is raised to a specific weight and traded live or after slaughtering. With the current viral infections like swine flu, the trading of hogs seems to have fallen. Take a look at the raw cane sugarLive Cattle Futures quotes.
Raw Cane Sugar
Raw cane sugar is popularly delivered under the Sugar No. 11 contract. This contract serves as a standard for trading raw sugar. Raw cane sugar is put into diverse uses through out the world. A unit consists of 112,000 pounds of raw cane sugar. Brazil is the first major producer of raw cane sugar. You can go through the NYMEX sugar No. 11 Futures contract.