Agriculture & farming
Seed, labour, irrigation and the price at harvest. Every figure shows its source and the season it was checked.
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Pick the amount you can raise. The businesses that start on it, what they cost and how long until the first income are all here.
Digital & B2B servicesTurning what you know into a course and selling seats. Near-zero capital, course prices Tk 1,250-8,800, but a new course's first batch enrols only 16-72 people.
Digital & B2B servicesCommission-only work with almost no capital. Life agents may take up to 35 percent of the first year's premium, and individual agency in non-life insurance closed on 1 January 2026.
Light manufacturing & workshopSequin, bead and zari handwork on sarees and three-pieces, done at home. The mohajon supplies every material; the piece rate is Tk 700-800 a saree and one saree takes at least fifteen days.
Digital & B2B servicesTurning what you know into a course and selling seats. Near-zero capital, course prices Tk 1,250-8,800, but a new course's first batch enrols only 16-72 people.
Agriculture & farmingBreeding guppy, molly, goldfish and angelfish in concrete tanks or aquariums and selling the young. The country has one wholesale market that matters, Katabon in Dhaka, where a survey counted 40 shops.
Digital & B2B servicesMatching buyers and sellers for a commission. No separate government licence is needed for brokerage and the capital is a phone; Dhaka flats list from Tk 1 crore to Tk 11.5 crore.
Agriculture & farmingBreeding guppy, molly, goldfish and angelfish in concrete tanks or aquariums and selling the young. The country has one wholesale market that matters, Katabon in Dhaka, where a survey counted 40 shops.
Digital & B2B servicesWriting land deeds at the sub-registry office. It needs a District Registrar's sanad: Tk 1,000 to get, Tk 250 a year to renew. The scheduled fee is Tk 10-15 per 300 words; TIB found Tk 500-5,000 is what clients actually pay.
Light manufacturing & workshopMaking bags, pots and showpieces from jute. Tk 2,000 of scissors and rope starts it by hand, but an export order needs a workshop, and ten machines cost about Tk 500,000.
Agriculture & farmingBreeding guppy, molly, goldfish and angelfish in concrete tanks or aquariums and selling the young. The country has one wholesale market that matters, Katabon in Dhaka, where a survey counted 40 shops.
Light manufacturing & workshopMaking bags, pots and showpieces from jute. Tk 2,000 of scissors and rope starts it by hand, but an export order needs a workshop, and ten machines cost about Tk 500,000.
Agriculture & farmingLeasing someone else's mango orchard for one or more seasons and selling the fruit. One Sokhipur orchard costs about Tk 833 per tree per year to lease; wholesale from the orchard runs Tk 1,320 to Tk 7,700 a maund.
We re-check every breakdown regularly.
Light manufacturing & workshopRecovering metals from discarded phones, televisions, fridges and computers. The Hazardous Waste (E-waste) Management Rules 2021 make Department of Environment registration and clearance compulsory; operating without it carries up to two years in prison or a Tk 200,000 fine or both.
Digital & B2B servicesRunning organised tours. It is not lawful without registration from the Bangladesh Tourism Board, and the 2024 rules require a Tk 300,000 non-refundable fee, a Tk 1,000,000 bank solvency certificate and a Tk 50,000 security deposit with the application.
Digital & B2B servicesRunning a news website. Registration with the Ministry of Information is compulsory at Tk 10,000, renewed yearly at Tk 5,000, and there is still no fixed government advertisement rate for online portals.
Digital & B2B servicesStoring, packing and delivering online sellers' parcels and collecting the cash. Couriers charge Tk 55-190 a parcel, and a marketplace must pay its seller within 10 days of receiving the money.
Digital & B2B servicesWriting for others for money. The capital is close to zero: a computer, a Tk 500 internet line and electricity. But writing job postings fell 21 percent within eight months of AI arriving, and demand is down 20-50 percent.
Digital & B2B servicesBuilding mobile apps to order. The capital is a computer, internet and electricity, plus a one-time USD 25 on Google Play and USD 99 a year on Apple. The cash incentive is 2.50 percent for an individual and 6 percent for a firm.
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229 real cases — the ones that held and the ones that came apart. Both are here, because both are true.
Char land farming and groundnutCox's Bazar
Betel leaf cultivation (boroj)Rajshahi
Aloe vera farmingBogura · 36 months
Hydroponic farmingRangpur · 3 months
Plain-land tea growingPanchagarh
Sericulture and silk yarnGazipur
Vegetable seed productionRajshahi
Jute farmingRajbari
Corporate meal deliveryDhaka
Agar (agarwood) plantationRangamati
Maize farmingThakurgaon
Meat retail shopDhaka
Ornamental fish farmingRangpur · 5 months
Mobile and accessories shopDhaka
Juice and sharbat shopRangpur
Pigeon and bird rearingMoulvibazar
Fruit wholesale arotKhulna
Cycle and rickshaw repair shopDhaka
Medicinal plant farmingGaibandha
Gold and jewellery shopChattogram
E-waste recyclingDhaka
Malta and orange farmingRajshahi
Chira (flattened rice) millNarayanganj
Book publishing and printingDhakaThe part nobody usually tells you
Of the 229 cases published here, 70 did not hold or lost money. How it happened is written down — not to frighten anyone, but so it is known beforehand.
Building a one-bigha boroj costs about 1 lakh taka and another lakh a year to keep, but small leaf sells at 10-25 taka a bira and growers say 35 is where the cost is covered.
Capital ৳1 lakhRajshahi
A 7-bigha tea garden in Boda, Panchagarh, paid for three or four years and then lost about 20 lakh taka: the fixed green-leaf price is 18.50 a kg, but factories paid 12-15 and cut a further 20-30 percent on top.
Panchagarh
A bigha of jute in Rajbari costs about 29,000 taka to grow and yields 8-10 maund, while even the best fibre fetches 2,400 taka a maund: roughly 5,000 taka of loss per bigha.
Rajbari
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