Mustard honey bottling
Place bee boxes in winter mustard fields, strain and bottle the honey, sell all year.
- Last reviewed: 27 September 2026
- Version 2
A bee on mustard flowers
1 of 3- Starting capital
- ৳1,00,000 – ৳2,50,000 Market quote
- Manpower
- 2 – 3 people
- First sale
- 60 – 90 days Practitioner verified
- Break-even
- 8 – 12 months Editorial estimate
- Kind of work
- Farm · Medium difficulty
About the business
From November to January, bee boxes are set up in the mustard fields of Sirajganj and Tangail. The real work is building trust that the honey is pure, so lab test reports and clear labels increase sales.
Unit economics
| Item | Range | Evidence | Suggest a correction |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly working capital | ৳30,000 – ৳87,500 | Editorial estimate | |
| Selling price | ৳650 – ৳900 / kg | Market quote | |
| Variable cost | ৳300 – ৳420 / kg | Market quote | |
| Time to first revenue | 60 – 90 days | Practitioner verified | |
| Break-even time | 8 – 12 months | Editorial estimate | |
| Cash cycle | 7 – 45 days | Practitioner verified |
Gross margin 35.4% – 66.7%. Our calculation: the low end uses the lowest price with the highest cost; the high end uses the reverse.
What you need to start
- 20–40 bee boxes and an extractorEquipment
- BSTI certification for bottled productsLicence
- Beekeeping training from BSCIC or DAESkill
How the work is done
- 1Buy bee boxes and queens
- 2Place boxes in mustard fields
- 3Extract and strain the honey
- 4Bottle, label and sell
Seasons
- JanHigh
- FebHigh
- MarLow
- AprLow
- MayLow
- JunLow
- JulLow
- AugLow
- SepLow
- OctLow
- NovNormal
- DecHigh
Where it works well
- Strong fitSirajganj · বড় সরিষা এলাকা
- Strong fitTangail · মৌচাষিদের নেটওয়ার্ক আছে
- PossibleBagerhat · সুন্দরবনের চাক মধু, তবে সংগ্রহ কঠিন
Risks and cautions
- MediumOther: Bees die in fields sprayed with pesticide.
- MediumDemand: Adulterated honey makes buyers slow to trust a new brand.
Videos and interviews
2:08
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4:21Stories about this business
100 bee boxes beside mustard fields; Tk 13 lakh of honey sold last year
A farmer in Manda, Naogaon, has kept bee boxes beside his own mustard field for six years. Last year he sold Tk 13 lakh of honey from 100 boxes and hopes for Tk 15 to 16 lakh this year.
- Ran for
- 72 months
- Reasons
- Weak demand, Good location
Fog kept the bees in, and 2,000 taka came off every box
In a normal week 150 boxes give 10 maunds - about 800 kg - of honey worth 130,000 taka. Fog and a minimum of 9 degrees kept the bees inside, knocking about 2,000 taka off boxes normally worth 10,000 each.
- Reasons
- Other, Dependency
Entrepreneurs in this business
The people running this business today — you can visit them, ask questions and learn.
Ashik's Bee Farm
Beekeeping and honey · Mustard honey bottling
Teenage beekeeper Ashik's 100-plus hives in Durgapur; mustard honey sold straight from the field
Durgapur, Rajshahi
- Sells products
- Visitors welcome
Amirul Gazi's bee farm
Beekeeping and honey · Mustard honey bottling
Mustard-flower honey from 100 bee boxes in mustard fields
Satkhira
- Sells products
Abul Hashem's Bee Farm
Beekeeping and honey · Mustard honey bottling
250 bee boxes in mustard and coriander fields, aiming for 4 tonnes of honey a season
Muradnagar, Cumilla
- Sells products
Ashar Alo Food Product
Beekeeping and honey · Mustard honey bottling
Four decades of beekeeping: honey from 150 hives in mustard fields, and hives with bees for sale
Ullapara, Sirajganj
- Sells products
- Teaches
Where to buy
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Sells beekeeping smokers, protective suits and veils, gloves, queen cages, hive brushes and varroa sprays.
আবুল কাশেম সড়ক, ইটাগাছা, সাতক্ষীরা, SatkhiraUsed by 3 businesses
সন্ধানী বিডি
Stocks beekeeping supplies: honey harvesting machines, smokers, protective suits, refractometers and bee medicines.
Baladier, Puthia, RajshahiUsed by 3 businesses
CADSON Engineering & Services
Builds and supplies honey processing plant: filtration units, moisture-reduction equipment, storage tanks and bottling systems.
Plot-10, Road-6/1, Block-K, Eastern Housing, Pallobi-2, Mirpur, Dhaka 1216Used by 3 businesses
Sources
বিসিক মৌচাষ প্রকল্পের প্রতিবেদন
Collected: 15 Aug 2026Supports: Starting capital, Selling price · সিরাজগঞ্জ
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