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203 businesses
Agriculture & farmingLow cost, low disease, fruit within a year. Tk 2,500-3,000 a maund at the orchard, Tk 120-200 a kilo retail in Dhaka, and a season running January to April.
Home & local servicesA shop that installs IPS units and replaces batteries. The machine sells once, the battery every 18-30 months - and the battery is most of the price of the set.
Agriculture & farmingGrowing vegetables in water without soil. One Dhaka rooftop setup cost about Tk 2,00,000, and outside Dhaka there is still almost no commercial buyer.
Food processingBuying raw honey from keepers, straining and bottling it under your own label. Bottled honey runs Tk 800-2,100 a kg, but a BSTI CM licence is compulsory and the sample test alone is Tk 7,500.
Agriculture & farmingGrowing rose, gerbera, gladiolus and marigold for the Godkhali or Gabtoli wholesale mokam. One bigha of roses costs about Tk 150,000, and the whole year's income turns on the price on a few festival days.
Home & local servicesA garage charging the batteries of easy-bikes and battery rickshaws. Electricity in the LT-D3 class costs Tk 9.09-14.20 a unit, and commercial charging from a residential connection is prohibited.
Food processingBuying nuts and dates by the sack and selling them in small branded packets. Wholesale almonds run Tk 1,150 and cashews Tk 1,600 a kg against Tk 1,200-2,600 in packets. No BSTI CM licence, but a packaging registration certificate is required.
Light manufacturing & workshopA roadside shop repairing bicycles, rickshaws and e-rickshaws. It can start from about Tk 15,000 of tools and stock, and customers pay cash when the job is done.
Food processingTurning coconuts into copra and crushing it for oil. Ordinary coconut oil sells at Tk 800-1,000 a litre and virgin at Tk 2,420-3,180, and both need a BSTI CM licence.
Home & local servicesDeep-cleaning flats and offices. In Dhaka a bathroom is Tk 1,225-2,250, a full home Tk 5,100-9,200 and floors Tk 3.5-10 per square foot.
Home & local servicesWashing, interior cleaning and polishing cars. Online platform rates in Dhaka run Tk 1,790-5,700 per car, and a pressure washer starts at Tk 7,250.
Agriculture & farmingFruit within six to seven months. About Tk 50,000 a bigha to grow, a wholesale rate of Tk 20-65 a kilo, and Tk 2 to 2.5 lakh of papaya possible off a bigha.
Light manufacturing & workshopHand-weaving mats from murta strips. In Jhalokathi one mat takes four to five days and sells for Tk 1,000-3,500, and the GI certificate has not raised that price; the weaver is still tied to the mahajan's advance.
Agriculture & farmingCanal-side guava orchards selling at the Bhimruli floating market. A maund fetched Tk 1,000-1,200 in 2026, but a ten-bigha orchard was yielding three to five maunds a day instead of ten, and with no cold store the rest rots.
Light manufacturing & workshopSplitting bamboo and cane into kula, baskets, cages and tourist crafts. A good bamboo costs Tk 400-500 and makes 15-20 kula in five days; a poultry cage earns the maker Tk 180 and the shopkeeper sells it at Tk 200.
Agriculture & farmingCashew and coffee orchards on hill land. Farmers get Tk 180-200 a kg for raw cashew and Tk 350-400 for raw coffee, but the first crop comes three to four years after planting for coffee and four to five for cashew.
Retail & wholesaleBuying river stone and sand and selling it into construction. A 100-cubic-foot tractor load costs Tk 8,000 at the Panchagarh pit head while Dhaka pays Tk 123-125 a cubic foot for local three-quarter stone, and the gap is freight and lease tolls.
Food processingRaw buffalo milk set in clay pots. In Bhola milk costs Tk 150/kg and the curd sells at Tk 200/kg, so about Tk 50 a kg is left, and getting the milk at all is the hardest part.
Light manufacturing & workshopMaking batik and tie-dye sarees and three-pieces at home with wax and dye on cotton. Cumilla shops sell batik sarees from Tk 500 to Tk 1,700, and one karigar can finish about ten sarees a day.
Agriculture & farmingGrowing groundnut, maize and pumpkin on river chars. The land is close to free: Tk 16,000 on 25 decimals returned Tk 26,400, and an acre costs Tk 65,000 to return about Tk 137,000.
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.
Agriculture & farmingLemon and pineapple orchards on hill slopes and fallow land. A hali of lemons is Tk 20-30 in Dhaka in September and Tk 100-120 in Ramadan; Madhupur pineapple is Tk 20-25 each wholesale.
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.
