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110 businesses
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 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 servicesGetting a client's website higher in Google. The capital is a computer, a Tk 500 internet line and electricity. Most of the money comes in dollars, and the cash incentive for an individual freelancer is now 2.50 percent, not the 4 percent everyone quotes.
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.
Digital & B2B servicesMeasuring land with chain and tape or with instruments, and matching the map against what is actually held. The paperwork now has fixed government prices: a mouza map is Tk 630 and a khatian online is Tk 100. The amin's own fee has no official rate.
Home & local servicesEmptying septic tanks and clearing drains. One Dhaka firm puts its starting price near Tk 7,000. But people die doing this work, from the gas, inside the tank.
Home & local servicesOrganising weddings, holud nights and receptions. Stage decoration budgets run from Tk 15,000 to over Tk 80,000, and the money comes 50 percent at booking and 50 percent on the day.
Light manufacturing & workshopBringing weak lead-acid batteries back with electrolyte correction and slow charging. Breaking batteries open and smelting the lead is a completely different trade - an offence without Department of Environment clearance, and only 7 of about 1,100 such operations in the country hold one.
Food processingDrying fish on raised racks or inside a solar dryer instead of on the ground, so no insecticide is needed. At Asadganj on 3 June 2026 good churi shutki fetched Tk 2,000-2,500 and loitta Tk 600-1,500 a kg.
Food processingMilk split into chhana, pressed into paneer. 8-10 kg of milk makes 1 kg of paneer, which sells at Tk 900-1,200 a kg - the whole business is the gap between the two prices.
Food processingLemon, sugarcane and bael sharbat through the hot months at Tk 10-25 a glass, lassi at Tk 50. The trade stands on three things: ice, electricity and one hot season.
Food processingA winter footpath stall selling vapa, chitoi and patishapta. Chitoi Tk 5-10, vapa Tk 10-20; a stall sells 250-800 pitha a day, but the trade only runs three or four months a year.
Agriculture & farmingCooking gas and organic fertiliser out of cow dung. This is not an income business but a cost-saving one: the plant costs Tk 28,000-50,000 and saves about Tk 4,000 a month in fuel plus Tk 2,000-2,500 from selling the surplus fertiliser.
Agriculture & farmingPlanting bamboo clumps and cutting culms year after year. Nothing can be cut for the first 3-4 years after planting; after that a culm fetches Tk 100-250 in the village and Tk 125-350 wholesale at the market.
Agriculture & farmingTapping date palms in winter and boiling the sap into gur. In the 2025-26 season granulated gur ran Tk 350-400 a kg and patali Tk 450-600, but the work lasts only three or four months a year and the gachhi who can climb are disappearing.
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.
Agriculture & farmingSold at the price the Cotton Development Board sets, Tk 3,900 a maund of seed cotton in 2025-26. At the national average yield of about 7.6 maunds a bigha that is roughly Tk 30,000 a bigha for six to seven months of land.
Agriculture & farmingGrowing seed, not vegetables. BADC's 2026-27 schedule prices bottle gourd seed at Tk 1,050 a kg, tomato at Tk 2,600 and hybrid tomato at Tk 26,000 — and selling it needs a seed dealer registration costing Tk 2,000.
Agriculture & farmingA ten to eleven month crop where the biggest slice of capital is seed rhizome: 375-400 kg a bigha, which at today's prices is Tk 45,000-70,000.
Agriculture & farmingA single winter crop, sown mid-November and cut in March. The government bought wheat from farmers at Tk 36 a kg in the 2025 procurement, against a reported Tk 6,000-7,000 to grow one bigha.
Agriculture & farmingSown in March-April, cut and retted in July-August. National average wholesale in August 2026 was Tk 98.75 a kg for white jute (Tk 3,950 a maund) and Tk 91.84 for tossa (Tk 3,673), against a production cost of Tk 2,600-3,200 a maund.
Agriculture & farmingThe 80-90 day crop that fits between the Aman harvest and Boro planting. Mustard seed averaged Tk 91.27 a kg wholesale nationally in August 2026, about Tk 3,651 a maund, and the government hands out Tk 550.50 worth of inputs per bigha.
Agriculture & farmingTwo crops in one year, muri-kata and hali. Local onion averaged Tk 41.82 a kg wholesale nationally in August 2026, but at harvest farmers got Tk 700-1,100 a maund against a cost of Tk 1,400-1,600.
Agriculture & farmingPlanted in winter, lifted in February-March. National average wholesale in August 2026 was Tk 29.80/kg for local potato and Tk 20.53-20.71 for Holland varieties, but at harvest the field price fell to Tk 3-7; cold storage rent is now Tk 6 a kg.
