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151 businesses
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 & farmingLemon and pineapple orchards on hill slopes and fallow land. A hali of lemons is Tk 20-30 in Dhaka in September and Tk 100-120 in Ramadan; Madhupur pineapple is Tk 20-25 each wholesale.
Digital & B2B servicesInstalling point-of-sale and accounting software in small shops. The competition is free apps - TallyKhata alone has about 4.7 million registered traders - so the income comes from hardware and service.
Digital & B2B servicesTaking grocery orders on an app or page and delivering to the door. Sugar leaves about 7 percent and bottled oil almost nothing - and the cost of delivery has to come out of that.
Digital & B2B servicesSelling online without holding stock, shipping by courier and collecting cash on delivery. Courier is Tk 60-180 plus 1 percent COD, and a returned parcel adds 50 percent of the delivery charge - which is where the profit goes.
Digital & B2B servicesEditing product videos and content for others. The customers already exist - 200,000 online merchants on Pathao and 300,000 on Steadfast; the main capital item is one editing computer.
Digital & B2B servicesDesigning and selling logos, banners and packaging. Training is nearly free so competition is fierce; overseas work loses 5-8 percent to gateways and conversion, offset by a 2.5 percent cash incentive.
Digital & B2B servicesMaking videos for YouTube and earning from ads. Creators get 55 percent of long-form ad revenue and 45 percent on Shorts; entry needs 1,000 subscribers and 4,000 watch hours, and both thresholds are doubling.
Home & local servicesDecorating gates, stages, lighting and rooms for weddings and events. Bookings come with 50-70 percent in advance, so the money arrives before the work.
Home & local servicesA centre rehabilitating stroke, accident and pain patients through exercise and therapy machines. Running one without Rehabilitation Council approval carries two years' jail or a Tk 200,000 fine.
Home & local servicesRenting a floor, installing machines and taking members on a monthly or yearly fee. The money comes up front while the costs run all year, and retention decides everything.
Digital & B2B servicesCarrying goods for hire by truck or pickup. Diesel is government-priced at Tk 115 a litre, but there is no government freight list - the rate is whatever you can bargain.
Home & local servicesBuying an autorickshaw and letting it to a driver for a fixed daily jama. BRTA's fixed jama is Tk 900; Tk 1,000-1,200 is actually taken, and up to Tk 1,800 across two shifts.
Agriculture & farmingSetting eggs in an incubator and selling day-old chicks to farmers. Ducklings cost Tk 30-35 and sell at Tk 72-75, but chicken chick prices swing from Tk 25 to Tk 85 and back to Tk 5 within months.
Agriculture & farmingRearing milch cows and selling milk daily. Milk Vita pays Tk 45-47 a litre and the open market about Tk 55, against a farmer-stated cost of roughly Tk 32.5 a litre. Output halves for three monsoon months.
Home & local servicesBuying mics, sound boxes and lights and hiring them out by the day. A one-day mic hire with vehicle was Tk 1,200 in Bhermara, of which Tk 500 is the equipment. Written permission is now required under the 2025 noise rules.
Agriculture & farmingGrowing plants in pots on the roof and selling seedlings. A small plant is Tk 50 while cactus and ferns reach Tk 1,200-5,000, and the pot, soil and fertiliser carry more money than the plant itself.
Home & local servicesTeaching sewing and handicraft on a few machines at home. The fee comes at the start of the course, but the government runs six-month trade courses for Tk 300-1,000, and that is the price to beat.
Home & local servicesTeaching at the student's home or in your own room for a monthly fee per student, with almost no capital. More than three-quarters of Bangladeshi students use a private tutor or coaching centre.
Food processingCooking pickles, pitha and meals at home and selling them through a Facebook page. A jar of pickle sells for Tk 150-465, and the 2026 food safety rules now require packaged-food registration at Tk 1,000 for three years.
Digital & B2B servicesBuilding and running websites for local clients. A simple site is Tk 8,000-15,000, e-commerce Tk 16,000-25,000, with maintenance at Tk 3,000-8,000 a month.
Home & local servicesSmall repairs at home - fans, wiring, taps and pipes, furniture. A job on a platform runs Tk 300-805, but the platform's commission rate can go up to 30 percent.
Home & local servicesControlling insects and rodents in homes, restaurants and warehouses. Annual contracts make the income predictable, and the work is illegal without a licence.
Light manufacturing & workshopProject work designing and building out flats, offices and shops. Materials are bought up front while payment comes in stages, so unpaid balances are the main risk.
