Skip to content
  • Our data is copyright protected — copying without permission is prohibited
  • We handle no money, ever
  • No business is promoted for payment
  • Tell us if something is wrong — we check and fix it

All businesses

Filter by capital, district and kind of work. Every number uses the same units, so you can compare businesses side by side.

13 businesses

Food processing

Solar and rack-dried shutki

Drying 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.

Capital
৳50k – ৳6 lakh
People
2 – 20
First income
20 – 60 days
Editorial estimate
Agriculture & farming

Areca nut and coconut plantation

Areca and coconut planted together. Areca starts bearing in 4-5 years and coconut later still; a mature areca palm carries 200-500 nuts a year, and the Agriculture Information Service puts the profit at Tk 1-1.5 lakh an acre a year.

Capital
৳60k – ৳5 lakh
People
1 – 5
First income
1,460 – 2,555 days
Editorial estimate
Agriculture & farming

Buffalo rearing

Keeping buffalo on the chars or in a bathan herd and selling the milk. A buffalo gives 4 to 8 kg of milk a day and buffalo milk fetches Tk 80 to 130 a litre, but only in districts where there are curd and sweet makers to buy it.

Capital
৳1.5 lakh – ৳10 lakh
People
1 – 5
First income
1 – 365 days
Editorial estimate
Digital & B2B services

Boat and trawler rental

Renting boats and trawlers for fishing, cargo and tourists. Diesel is Tk 115 a litre, and hilsa fishing is fully banned for 22 days from 8 to 29 October 2026.

Capital
৳1.5 lakh – ৳30 lakh
People
2 – 20
First income
30 – 180 days
Editorial estimate
Agriculture & farming

Capsicum and high-value vegetables

Growing capsicum from November to February. Dhaka retail is Tk 220 a kilo for green and Tk 400 for coloured, but total national output is only 475 tonnes a year - the buyer base is narrow.

Capital
৳1.1 lakh – ৳7 lakh
People
2 – 10
First income
60 – 90 days
Practitioner verified
Agriculture & farming

Watermelon farming

A three-month coastal crop. Tk 30,000-35,000 a bigha to grow, Tk 80,000 to a lakh a bigha in a good year, and a selling window only about two weeks wide.

Capital
৳35k – ৳3.5 lakh
People
2 – 10
First income
90 – 120 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

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
Food processing

Buffalo curd and dairy

Raw 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.

Capital
৳80k – ৳4 lakh
People
1 – 5
First income
7 – 30 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

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
Light manufacturing & workshop

Ice factory

A plant making ice for fish preservation. A can sells for Tk 120-300, but a 125 kg can needs eight straight hours of power, which makes load-shedding the whole risk.

Capital
৳15 lakh – ৳1 crore
People
5 – 25
First income
90 – 240 days
Editorial estimate
Food processing

Dry fish (shutki) processing

Buying fresh fish, sun-drying it for three to four days and selling shutki. December 2025 prices ran from poa at Tk 500-800 to rupchanda at Tk 1,800-2,500 a kilo; drying without insecticide is the condition for export.

Capital
৳50k – ৳5 lakh
People
3 – 30
First income
4 – 30 days
Editorial estimate