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58 businesses
Digital & B2B servicesRunning organised tours. It is not lawful without registration from the Bangladesh Tourism Board, and the 2024 rules require a Tk 300,000 non-refundable fee, a Tk 1,000,000 bank solvency certificate and a Tk 50,000 security deposit with the application.
Digital & B2B servicesRunning a news website. Registration with the Ministry of Information is compulsory at Tk 10,000, renewed yearly at Tk 5,000, and there is still no fixed government advertisement rate for online portals.
Digital & B2B servicesWriting land deeds at the sub-registry office. It needs a District Registrar's sanad: Tk 1,000 to get, Tk 250 a year to renew. The scheduled fee is Tk 10-15 per 300 words; TIB found Tk 500-5,000 is what clients actually pay.
Digital & B2B servicesMeasuring land with chain and tape or with instruments, and matching the map against what is actually held. The paperwork now has fixed government prices: a mouza map is Tk 630 and a khatian online is Tk 100. The amin's own fee has no official rate.
Digital & B2B servicesBuying and selling foreign currency notes under a Bangladesh Bank licence. On 21 September 2026 the dollar was bought at Tk 125.60 and sold at Tk 126.60 — one taka a dollar. Doing this without the licence is a criminal offence carrying up to seven years in prison.
Retail & wholesaleRetailing toys and gift items. In September 2026 online toy prices ran from Tk 58 to Tk 3,815. Imported toys carry 25 percent customs duty, and most of the year's selling happens in the few weeks around Eid and Pohela Boishakh.
Home & local servicesEmptying septic tanks and clearing drains. One Dhaka firm puts its starting price near Tk 7,000. But people die doing this work, from the gas, inside the tank.
Home & local servicesWashing, ironing and returning clothes, with pickup and delivery. In Dhaka one shirt washed and ironed runs Tk 60 to Tk 155, and ironing alone Tk 15.
Home & local servicesOrganising weddings, holud nights and receptions. Stage decoration budgets run from Tk 15,000 to over Tk 80,000, and the money comes 50 percent at booking and 50 percent on the day.
Home & local servicesBuying diesel gensets and hiring them out by the hour, day or month. A 100 kVA set listed at Tk 795,000 in September 2026, and with diesel at Tk 135 a litre the fuel alone costs about Tk 42 a unit.
Home & local servicesInstalling rooftop and ground solar. In September 2026 a grid-tied 10 kW plant listed at Tk 449,000-700,000, and net metering now allows a system up to the consumer's full sanctioned load.
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.
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 & 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.
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.
Home & local servicesRunning a small resort or cottage in a tourist area. Sajek fills completely in peak season, but the season is short and one 2025 fire destroyed 94 resorts and cottages.
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.
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.
Food processingTreating water and selling it in jars and bottles. BSTI certification is compulsory, and most of the margin sits with the retailer and distributor rather than the plant.
Food processingMaking ice cream, kulfi and popsicles from milk, milk powder and sugar. BSTI certification is compulsory, and one break in the minus-20-degree cold chain ruins the stock.
Agriculture & farmingA 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.
Light manufacturing & workshopLaying tiles and marble on floors, walls and bathrooms. Tiles run Tk 55-170 a piece and the statutory minimum for a tile man is Tk 1,105 a day in town, the highest on any site.
Agriculture & farmingA 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.
