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12 businesses
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 & farmingPlanted in winter, lifted in February-March. National average wholesale in August 2026 was Tk 29.80/kg for local potato and Tk 20.53-20.71 for Holland varieties, but at harvest the field price fell to Tk 3-7; cold storage rent is now Tk 6 a kg.
Agriculture & farmingRearing sheep on open grazing in fields and chars. Before Qurbani 2026 one Joypurhat farmer sold 26 sheep for Tk 2,30,000, about Tk 8,800 each.
Agriculture & farmingGrowing basok, kalomegh, tulsi and arjun. The buyers are medicine companies, so the price is set by contract or tender: a bigha of kalomegh costs Tk 15,000, yields 20-22 maunds and sells at Tk 2,400 a maund.
Agriculture & farmingGrowing groundnut, maize and pumpkin on river chars. The land is close to free: Tk 16,000 on 25 decimals returned Tk 26,400, and an acre costs Tk 65,000 to return about Tk 137,000.
Light manufacturing & workshopMachine-stitching thread designs onto cloth as a job for others. The customers are cap factories, boutiques and saree workshops. What takes fifteen days by hand, the machine does in hours.
Food processingGrinding and blending bran, broken rice and cake into granular cattle feed for farmers. Company feed is Tk 55-60/kg while inputs run Tk 38-62/kg, so the gap is thin. Operating without a DLS licence carries a Tk 50,000 fine.
Agriculture & farmingMaking compost from cow dung and earthworms beside the cattle shed. Compost sells at Tk 10-13/kg against a cost of Tk 6-7, but the real income is selling breeding worms at Tk 2,000/kg.
Agriculture & farmingGrowing napier fodder for cattle farms. One planting yields for four to five years with four to six cuts a year, and surplus grass off one bigha brings Tk 30,000-35,000 extra a year.
Agriculture & farmingFeed mills buy every kilo, so the buyer is fixed in advance. One bigha costs Tk 12,000-14,000 and yields 30-36 maunds, worth Tk 750-800 a maund wet and Tk 1,040-1,060 dried.
Food processingBuying paddy, parboiling and hulling it, and selling the rice. 24,000 kg of paddy gives 15,000 kg of rice, and the husk, bran and broken grain return another Tk 6.45 on every kilo sold.
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.
