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12 businesses
Retail & wholesaleSelling hooks, rods, reels, nets and fish medicine. Rods Tk 455-1,552, reels Tk 641-6,705. Current jal and China duari nets are illegal - stocking them means seizure and a mobile court.
Digital & B2B servicesRenting 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.
Agriculture & farmingPlanted 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.
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 & farmingSowing 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.
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.
Agriculture & farmingCage-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.
Home & local servicesChair count, daily customers and rent decide everything. A Dhaka haircut is Tk 120 and a shave Tk 80-130, against one blade of material at Tk 6-23.
Light manufacturing & workshopA 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.
Retail & wholesaleAuctioning farmers' fish on commission. The rate is about 3 per cent, and holding suppliers means giving interest-free advances - the money is in volume, not margin.
Home & local servicesA centre caring for working parents' children through the day. Registration is compulsory under the 2021 Act: running one without it risks two years in jail or a Tk 5-10 lakh fine.
Retail & wholesaleBought at dawn from the landing site, iced and in town shops before noon.
