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202 businesses
Agriculture & farmingBuying cattle cheap, feeding them up and selling at the Qurbani market. About Tk 225 a day per animal, and at Qurbani 2026 one in four prepared animals did not sell.
Digital & B2B servicesTurning what you know into a course and selling seats. Near-zero capital, course prices Tk 1,250-8,800, but a new course's first batch enrols only 16-72 people.
Home & local servicesRenting rooms by the night. A one-star hotel pays Tk 42,000 in registration and licence fees before opening and must have at least 10 rooms; government motel room rates run Tk 900-4,500.
Digital & B2B servicesTickets, visas and hajj-umrah packages. Ministry registration costs Tk 62,500, renewal Tk 25,000 every three years, and the 2026 ordinance requires a Tk 10 lakh bank guarantee.
Retail & wholesaleA retail shop for creams, shampoo, face wash and make-up. At least 18 cosmetic categories are on BSTI's mandatory list, and uncertified or undocumented imported stock is the shopkeeper's liability.
Digital & B2B servicesInstalling and maintaining camera systems. Cameras are Tk 799-6,438 and recorders Tk 4,400-41,990, so cheap hardware has squeezed installation margins; the money is in annual maintenance contracts.
Home & local servicesServicing and repairing air conditioners and refrigerators at the customer's address. March to June is overloaded and winter is near dead, so annual maintenance contracts are what carry the year.
Food processingMaking sweets from chhana and selling them over a counter. Sweets run Tk 380-600 a kg and doi Tk 210-300 a litre, but milk is Tk 120-140 a litre, so the margin is the milk price.
Food processingGrinding and packing spices for sale. A BSTI CM licence is compulsory: lab testing alone is Tk 2,900-5,300 per product and the licence takes 19-94 working days.
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 & wholesaleA retail shop for buckets, mugs, chairs, dinner sets and water tanks. The factory prints the selling price, but nobody publishes the dealer's commission.
Home & local servicesRenting out cars by the day or on monthly contract. In Dhaka a sedan is Tk 4,000 a day for 10 hours and 100 km and a Hiace Tk 5,500, but that is not profit once driver pay and depreciation are counted.
Retail & wholesaleBuying imported used clothing by the sealed bale and selling it by the piece. A jacket bale is about Tk 15,000 and pieces retail at Tk 20-2,000, but the bale is bought without seeing inside.
Light manufacturing & workshopCutting and welding mild steel into grills, railings, steel doors and gates. Plain MS grill is about Tk 160-220 per square foot, while MS rod has risen 10-17 percent in a year.
Light manufacturing & workshopCutting and fitting aluminium profile and glass into doors, windows and partitions. Ordinary work is about Tk 470-750 per square foot, and a wrong measurement cannot be returned.
Food processingBuying green bananas, ripening them in a controlled chamber and selling them on. Section 23 of the Food Safety Act names calcium carbide as prohibited and the offence is non-bailable; ethylene and ethephon are permitted within prescribed limits.
Agriculture & farmingBuying five to six month old khasi, feeding them up and selling at the Qurbani haat. In May 2026 Chattogram haats paid Tk 8,000-15,000 for small goats and Tk 40,000-50,000 for large ones; big crossbreeds went at Tk 700-800 a kilo.
Food processingBuying 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.
Food processingCrushing mustard seed for oil and cake. A maund of seed gives 16-19 litres of oil and 25 kg of cake; net of the cake a litre costs Tk 96-114 to make and sells loose at Tk 200.
Food processingFrying rice into muri. One kilo of rice gives 900 grams of muri and coarse rice costs Tk 50-55/kg, so machine muri keeps only Tk 4-6 a kilo while hand-fried pure muri wholesales at Tk 90.
Home & local servicesThe part carries little margin; the money is in the labour. The repairer who can work on a motherboard gets the other shops' sets too.
Digital & B2B servicesA parcel outside Dhaka costs Tk 135-150 in courier charge plus 1 percent COD. A refused parcel costs both legs. The return rate is the number that decides this business.
Retail & wholesaleThe neighbourhood everyday-goods shop. A few taka a kilo, so income depends on volume - and the shop usually dies when customer credit locks up the cash.
Digital & B2B servicesAgent commission is about Tk 4 per Tk 1,000 moved. Earning Tk 30,000 a month means pushing roughly Tk 73 lakh a month across the counter.
