The following are the advantages of growing trees:
- Money-making opportunity investing in trees.
- It is a means of combating deforestation.
- The trees provide poles, timber and firewood.
- The trees provide medicinal plants, ecotourism, honey, mushrooms, shea butter, gums or resins, rattan, wild foods and handicrafts.
- The trees support charcoal production in rural areas for sale to people living in towns
- The trees protect our environment