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35 businesses
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.
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.
Agriculture & farmingTapping date palms in winter and boiling the sap into gur. In the 2025-26 season granulated gur ran Tk 350-400 a kg and patali Tk 450-600, but the work lasts only three or four months a year and the gachhi who can climb are disappearing.
Agriculture & farmingA ten to eleven month crop where the biggest slice of capital is seed rhizome: 375-400 kg a bigha, which at today's prices is Tk 45,000-70,000.
Agriculture & farmingSown in March-April, cut and retted in July-August. National average wholesale in August 2026 was Tk 98.75 a kg for white jute (Tk 3,950 a maund) and Tk 91.84 for tossa (Tk 3,673), against a production cost of Tk 2,600-3,200 a maund.
Agriculture & farmingTwo crops in one year, muri-kata and hali. Local onion averaged Tk 41.82 a kg wholesale nationally in August 2026, but at harvest farmers got Tk 700-1,100 a maund against a cost of Tk 1,400-1,600.
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.
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.
Light manufacturing & workshopA factory making vests, socks and sweaters from jhut cloth. Pabna has about a thousand units making 180-200 million pieces a year, but with the land route to India closed 65 percent of the workers are idle.
Light manufacturing & workshopTwisting jute fibre into rope and twine. In September 2026 raw jute was about Tk 86-99 a kilo while finished twine listed online at Tk 390 a kilo - that gap is the business.
Agriculture & farmingGrowing capsicum from November to February. Dhaka retail is Tk 220 a kilo for green and Tk 400 for coloured, but total national output is only 475 tonnes a year - the buyer base is narrow.
Agriculture & farmingLow cost, low disease, fruit within a year. Tk 2,500-3,000 a maund at the orchard, Tk 120-200 a kilo retail in Dhaka, and a season running January to April.
Home & local servicesA garage charging the batteries of easy-bikes and battery rickshaws. Electricity in the LT-D3 class costs Tk 9.09-14.20 a unit, and commercial charging from a residential connection is prohibited.
Light manufacturing & workshopA roadside shop repairing bicycles, rickshaws and e-rickshaws. It can start from about Tk 15,000 of tools and stock, and customers pay cash when the job is done.
Agriculture & farmingFruit within six to seven months. About Tk 50,000 a bigha to grow, a wholesale rate of Tk 20-65 a kilo, and Tk 2 to 2.5 lakh of papaya possible off a bigha.
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.
Agriculture & farmingLeasing someone else's mango orchard for one or more seasons and selling the fruit. One Sokhipur orchard costs about Tk 833 per tree per year to lease; wholesale from the orchard runs Tk 1,320 to Tk 7,700 a maund.
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 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.
Light manufacturing & workshopDrying water hyacinth and weaving it into trays, baskets and doormats. In Jhenaidah 800 women do this at home at Tk 20 a piece, 12-15 pieces a day, about Tk 3,000 a month, and the goods go to 82 countries.
Retail & wholesaleBuying cheap at harvest, storing, and selling when prices rise. But 25-30 percent of the country's onion rots for want of storage, and local onion fell 30 percent in twelve months.
Food processingRoasting paddy in hot sand and flattening it into chira. A village mill charges about Tk 8 a kg to flatten a farmer's own paddy, while chira retails at Tk 70-80 a kg.
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.
Retail & wholesaleA farm input shop selling seed, fertiliser, pesticide and feed. The fertiliser margin is fixed by government at Tk 2 a kg today, rising to Tk 3 from 1 July 2027.
