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92 businesses
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.
Food processingMaking and packing biscuits, toast and chips from flour, sugar and oil. BSTI certification is compulsory, and the shop credit cycle is the real constraint.
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.
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.
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.
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 & 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.
Retail & wholesaleUnloading truckloads of fruit and selling by the crate to retail shops. Badamtoli turns over about Tk 40 crore a day, and opening a crate can show 25-33 percent rotten.
Digital & B2B servicesA licensed agency sending workers abroad. A new licence needs a Tk 35 lakh security deposit plus about Tk 4 lakh in fees, and doing this work without a licence carries up to five years in jail.
Digital & B2B servicesArranging appointments, visas, tickets and stay for patients travelling abroad for treatment. There is no separate licence, but a travel agency registration certificate is required, valid three years.
Light manufacturing & workshopProject work designing and building out flats, offices and shops. Materials are bought up front while payment comes in stages, so unpaid balances are the main risk.
Light manufacturing & workshopTurning a manuscript into a printed book and getting it to market. White writing paper is Tk 34-40 per dista, and keeping a press requires a declaration before the District Magistrate.
Home & local servicesA centre for blood tests, X-ray and ultrasonogram. It needs a DGHS licence, with an annual fee of Tk 15,000-50,000 by category and location.
Retail & wholesaleA DGDA-accredited pharmacy. 300 sq ft, air-conditioning, a pharmacy-grade fridge and a Grade A pharmacist are compulsory; the drug licence runs two years.
Light manufacturing & workshopWeaving bed sheets and home textiles on power looms for the wholesale haats. One loom makes 8-15 pieces a day, and a plain double bed sheet set retails at Tk 389-489.
Food processingGrinding and blending bran, broken rice and cake into granular cattle feed for farmers. Company feed is Tk 55-60/kg while inputs run Tk 38-62/kg, so the gap is thin. Operating without a DLS licence carries a Tk 50,000 fine.
Food processingMaking bread, biscuits and cake and supplying local shops. A sack of flour went from Tk 2,300 to Tk 3,100 in a year, and BFSA registration at Tk 1,000 is compulsory.
