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192 businesses
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 processingAn espresso machine and imported beans. A cup sells from Tk 50 to Tk 400, but a shop moves 70-100 cups a day - customers sit for hours over a single cup.
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 & farmingAreca 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.
Agriculture & farmingGrowing agar trees, driving nails into them to force the resin, and selling the wood or the attar. The first money arrives 8 to 16 years after planting, and exporting needs a CITES no-objection certificate from the Forest Department.
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 & 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 & farmingFattening mud crab in brackish-water pens or boxes and selling on to a depot and an exporter. Bangladesh shipped Tk 867.88 crore of crab in FY2024-25, almost all of it to China, and when China shuts the door a Tk 2,000 kg crab falls to Tk 300.
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.
Home & local servicesSelling animal medicines and giving treatment. Treatment needs Veterinary Council registration, the establishment needs Council recognition, and the licence to sell medicine comes from DGDA.
Food processingA small shop selling burgers, sandwiches, rolls and fries. Lower capital than a restaurant, but exactly the same licence stack - trade, food safety, fire, environment and VAT.
Retail & wholesaleWholesaling medicines to pharmacies. DGDA licenses it separately - Tk 10,000 new, Tk 5,000 renewal, valid two years - but no pharmacist is required.
Home & local servicesRepairing wristwatches and wall clocks. The national watch market is over Tk 300 crore, but Patuatuli sells watches from Tk 30, so cheap watches are never repaired.
Light manufacturing & workshopA unit pressing mosquito coils from sawdust and insecticide. BSTI certification is compulsory and the Department of Environment will not clear a site in a residential area.
Digital & B2B servicesTyping and list work from home. Easy to enter, very low starting pay - one named freelancer's first month was USD 13, and reaching a lakh a month took four years.
Food processingSelling kacchi, tehari and morog polao by the plate. Almost the entire cost is meat - the raw material in one pot of shahi mutton kacchi is Tk 13,265-15,054.
Light manufacturing & workshopMaking children's toys from the offcuts a furniture workshop discards. Wooden craft items sold at BSCIC's fair between Tk 100 and Tk 3,000.
Retail & wholesaleRetailing bats, balls, jerseys and rackets. Children's bats Tk 109-511, English willow Tk 2,250-3,190, footballs Tk 484-1,200. Demand follows schools, clubs and the tournament season.
Home & local servicesStitching, soling and polishing shoes. A polish is Tk 30 in Sylhet with Tk 400-500 on an average day; one launch-based repairer takes Tk 700 some days and under Tk 200 on others.
Home & local servicesSupplying guards on contract. The service charge is Tk 9,000-10,000 per guard while wages are Tk 8,000-15,000 - that gap is the whole business.
Food processingMixing maize, soybean meal and bran into poultry feed sold in 50 kg sacks. Sacks run Tk 3,000-3,669, and both a Department of Livestock Services licence and a BSTI CM licence are compulsory.
Light manufacturing & workshopMaking clay pots, planters and terracotta showpieces. Bijoypur's work is exported, but with no gas the kilns run on firewood and part of the output is spoiled.
