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67 businesses

Agriculture & farming

Summer tomato farming

Planted in December, sold April to June. Tk 70,000-80,000 a bigha, 300-400 maunds of fruit, Tk 1,000-1,800 a maund, and Tk 3-4 crore a day changing hands at Gabura Bazar in Dinajpur.

Capital
৳35k – ৳1.6 lakh
People
1 – 6
First income
90 – 120 days
Practitioner verified
Agriculture & farming

Strawberry farming

A winter crop fruiting in 72-75 days at Tk 400-1,000 a kilo, but about Tk 4 lakh goes into just 30 decimals and the fruit keeps only two or three days.

Capital
৳4 lakh – ৳12 lakh
People
2 – 12
First income
72 – 75 days
Practitioner verified
Agriculture & farming

Malta and orange farming

Orchards of green malta and orange. National output went from 17,000 to 84,000 tonnes in six years, and local malta in Dhaka has fallen to Tk 80-120 a kilo.

Capital
৳90k – ৳3 lakh
People
1 – 4
First income
730 – 1,095 days
Editorial estimate
Agriculture & farming

Jujube (kul) farming

Low 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.

Capital
৳70k – ৳2.5 lakh
People
1 – 5
First income
365 days
Practitioner verified
Agriculture & farming

Hydroponic farming

Growing 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.

Capital
৳4k – ৳2 lakh
People
1 – 3
First income
45 – 120 days
Editorial estimate
Agriculture & farming

Flower farming and florist

Growing 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.

Capital
৳1.2 lakh – ৳3.5 lakh
People
1 – 5
First income
60 – 90 days
Market quote
Agriculture & farming

Papaya farming

Fruit 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.

Capital
৳50k – ৳2 lakh
People
1 – 4
First income
180 – 240 days
Practitioner verified
Agriculture & farming

Guava orchard and floating market

Canal-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.

Capital
৳50k – ৳5 lakh
People
1 – 8
First income
365 – 730 days
Editorial estimate
Agriculture & farming

Cashew and coffee farming

Cashew 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.

Capital
৳50k – ৳5 lakh
People
1 – 6
First income
1,095 – 1,825 days
Editorial estimate
Agriculture & farming

Char land farming and groundnut

Growing 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.

Capital
৳16k – ৳65k
People
1 – 5
First income
100 – 120 days
Market quote
Agriculture & farming

Mango orchard leasing and trading

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.

Capital
৳42k – ৳30 lakh
People
2 – 10
First income
180 – 270 days
Editorial estimate
Agriculture & farming

Sericulture and silk yarn

Rearing silkworms on mulberry leaf for cocoons and silk yarn. The Sericulture Board supplies eggs, saplings, equipment and training free; its own rate for yarn is Tk 3,001-3,701 a kilo.

Capital
৳3k – ৳20k
People
1 – 4
First income
30 – 180 days
Official source
Agriculture & farming

Lemon and pineapple farming

Lemon 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.

Capital
৳41k – ৳1.8 lakh
People
1 – 6
First income
400 – 730 days
Editorial estimate
Agriculture & farming

Soybean farming

Sowing soybean in December-January on land left free after aman and harvesting in May. Lakshmipur grows 70-80 percent of the national crop, and oil and feed mills are the guaranteed buyer.

Capital
৳17k – ৳1 lakh
People
1 – 5
First income
130 – 150 days
Editorial estimate
Agriculture & farming

Floating bed vegetable and seedling farming

Building 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.

Capital
৳22k – ৳2.2 lakh
People
2 – 6
First income
35 – 60 days
Editorial estimate
Agriculture & farming

Plain-land tea growing

Growing 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.

Capital
৳1 lakh – ৳5 lakh
People
1 – 6
First income
730 – 1,095 days
Editorial estimate
Agriculture & farming

Poultry and duck hatchery

Setting 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.

Capital
৳50k – ৳8 lakh
People
2 – 15
First income
28 – 60 days
Market quote
Agriculture & farming

Dairy cattle farm

Rearing 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.

Capital
৳2.5 lakh – ৳12 lakh
People
1 – 6
First income
7 – 60 days
Editorial estimate
Agriculture & farming

Rooftop farming and nursery

Growing plants in pots on the roof and selling seedlings. A small plant is Tk 50 while cactus and ferns reach Tk 1,200-5,000, and the pot, soil and fertiliser carry more money than the plant itself.

Capital
৳5k – ৳80k
People
1 – 2
First income
60 – 180 days
Editorial estimate
Agriculture & farming

Pigeon and bird rearing

Rearing pigeons on a roof or in a yard with no land at all. A pair sells for Tk 500-5,000 at Bhojeshwar hat, and one Jashore farmer's 400 birds cost Tk 20,000 a month to keep against Tk 30,000-35,000 of sales.

Capital
৳15k – ৳1.5 lakh
People
1 – 2
First income
45 – 75 days
Editorial estimate
Agriculture & farming

Quail farming

Cage-reared quail. Laying starts in 35-45 days; an egg costs about Tk 1.20 to produce and sells wholesale at Tk 2.80-3.50. The market is narrow, and the bigger money is in selling chicks.

Capital
৳35k – ৳2.5 lakh
People
1 – 3
First income
35 – 49 days
Editorial estimate
Agriculture & farming

Vermicompost production

Making compost from cow dung and earthworms beside the cattle shed. Compost sells at Tk 10-13/kg against a cost of Tk 6-7, but the real income is selling breeding worms at Tk 2,000/kg.

Capital
৳5k – ৳60k
People
1 – 2
First income
30 – 50 days
Editorial estimate
Agriculture & farming

Fodder grass cultivation

Growing napier fodder for cattle farms. One planting yields for four to five years with four to six cuts a year, and surplus grass off one bigha brings Tk 30,000-35,000 extra a year.

Capital
৳10k – ৳50k
People
1 – 3
First income
50 – 70 days
Editorial estimate
Agriculture & farming

Maize farming

Feed mills buy every kilo, so the buyer is fixed in advance. One bigha costs Tk 12,000-14,000 and yields 30-36 maunds, worth Tk 750-800 a maund wet and Tk 1,040-1,060 dried.

Capital
৳12k – ৳42k
People
1 – 4
First income
120 – 160 days
Practitioner verified