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Leasing 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.
Digital & B2B servicesInstalling point-of-sale and accounting software in small shops. The competition is free apps - TallyKhata alone has about 4.7 million registered traders - so the income comes from hardware and service.
Digital & B2B servicesTaking grocery orders on an app or page and delivering to the door. Sugar leaves about 7 percent and bottled oil almost nothing - and the cost of delivery has to come out of that.
Digital & B2B servicesSelling online without holding stock, shipping by courier and collecting cash on delivery. Courier is Tk 60-180 plus 1 percent COD, and a returned parcel adds 50 percent of the delivery charge - which is where the profit goes.
Digital & B2B servicesEditing product videos and content for others. The customers already exist - 200,000 online merchants on Pathao and 300,000 on Steadfast; the main capital item is one editing computer.
Digital & B2B servicesMaking videos for YouTube and earning from ads. Creators get 55 percent of long-form ad revenue and 45 percent on Shorts; entry needs 1,000 subscribers and 4,000 watch hours, and both thresholds are doubling.
Home & local servicesDecorating gates, stages, lighting and rooms for weddings and events. Bookings come with 50-70 percent in advance, so the money arrives before the work.
Home & local servicesA centre rehabilitating stroke, accident and pain patients through exercise and therapy machines. Running one without Rehabilitation Council approval carries two years' jail or a Tk 200,000 fine.
Home & local servicesRenting a floor, installing machines and taking members on a monthly or yearly fee. The money comes up front while the costs run all year, and retention decides everything.
Home & local servicesRenting out a vehicle to carry patients and bodies. There is no national fare list; CMCH's fixed rates run from Tk 1,144 to Tk 5,785.
Digital & B2B servicesCarrying goods for hire by truck or pickup. Diesel is government-priced at Tk 115 a litre, but there is no government freight list - the rate is whatever you can bargain.
Home & local servicesBuying an autorickshaw and letting it to a driver for a fixed daily jama. BRTA's fixed jama is Tk 900; Tk 1,000-1,200 is actually taken, and up to Tk 1,800 across two shifts.
Retail & wholesaleBuying betel nut from households and selling at the hat, or soaking and drying it to sell later. In Lakshmipur in October 2025 a kaun fetched Tk 2,500-2,800 and a pon Tk 150-250.
Agriculture & farmingBuilding beds of water hyacinth and algae on open water to raise vegetable seedlings. No land and no irrigation needed. In Nazirpur a bed costs Tk 11,000 to build against an expected Tk 20,000 of seedling sales.
Light manufacturing & workshopHand-embroidered layered quilts. In Jamalpur one kantha costs Tk 1,600-1,800 including wages, goes to Dhaka wholesalers at Tk 2,000, and sells in Dhaka shops for Tk 4,000-5,000.
Agriculture & farmingGrowing tea on flat land, plucking green leaf and selling it to factories for cash. The fixed rate in March 2026 was Tk 28 a kg with the market at Tk 34-35, but up to 40 percent can be cut off the weight.
Light manufacturing & workshopSoaking and boiling agarwood to draw off fragrant attar. Barlekha's Sujanagar has about 250 units, attar sells at Tk 6,000-10,000 a tola by grade, and nearly all of it is exported.
Light manufacturing & workshopMachine-stitching thread designs onto cloth as a job for others. The customers are cap factories, boutiques and saree workshops. What takes fifteen days by hand, the machine does in hours.
Agriculture & farmingSetting eggs in an incubator and selling day-old chicks to farmers. Ducklings cost Tk 30-35 and sell at Tk 72-75, but chicken chick prices swing from Tk 25 to Tk 85 and back to Tk 5 within months.
Agriculture & farmingRearing milch cows and selling milk daily. Milk Vita pays Tk 45-47 a litre and the open market about Tk 55, against a farmer-stated cost of roughly Tk 32.5 a litre. Output halves for three monsoon months.
Home & local servicesBuying mics, sound boxes and lights and hiring them out by the day. A one-day mic hire with vehicle was Tk 1,200 in Bhermara, of which Tk 500 is the equipment. Written permission is now required under the 2025 noise rules.
Home & local servicesTeaching sewing and handicraft on a few machines at home. The fee comes at the start of the course, but the government runs six-month trade courses for Tk 300-1,000, and that is the price to beat.
Digital & B2B servicesBuilding and running websites for local clients. A simple site is Tk 8,000-15,000, e-commerce Tk 16,000-25,000, with maintenance at Tk 3,000-8,000 a month.
Home & local servicesControlling insects and rodents in homes, restaurants and warehouses. Annual contracts make the income predictable, and the work is illegal without a licence.