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8 businesses

Food processing

Pitha shop

A winter footpath stall selling vapa, chitoi and patishapta. Chitoi Tk 5-10, vapa Tk 10-20; a stall sells 250-800 pitha a day, but the trade only runs three or four months a year.

Capital
৳5k – ৳60k
People
1 – 4
First income
3 – 60 days
Editorial estimate
Agriculture & farming

Bamboo cultivation

Planting bamboo clumps and cutting culms year after year. Nothing can be cut for the first 3-4 years after planting; after that a culm fetches Tk 100-250 in the village and Tk 125-350 wholesale at the market.

Capital
৳15k – ৳3 lakh
People
1 – 4
First income
1,095 – 2,920 days
Editorial estimate
Agriculture & farming

Jute farming

Sown 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.

Capital
৳24k – ৳1.5 lakh
People
2 – 8
First income
120 – 150 days
Editorial estimate
Agriculture & farming

Guava orchard and floating market

Canal-side guava orchards selling at the Bhimruli floating market. A maund fetched Tk 1,000-1,200 in 2026, but a ten-bigha orchard was yielding three to five maunds a day instead of ten, and with no cold store the rest rots.

Capital
৳50k – ৳5 lakh
People
1 – 8
First income
365 – 730 days
Editorial estimate
Light manufacturing & workshop

Bamboo and cane handicraft

Splitting bamboo and cane into kula, baskets, cages and tourist crafts. A good bamboo costs Tk 400-500 and makes 15-20 kula in five days; a poultry cage earns the maker Tk 180 and the shopkeeper sells it at Tk 200.

Capital
৳10k – ৳1 lakh
People
1 – 6
First income
5 – 30 days
Editorial estimate
Agriculture & farming

Pigeon and bird rearing

Rearing pigeons on a roof or in a yard with no land at all. A pair sells for Tk 500-5,000 at Bhojeshwar hat, and one Jashore farmer's 400 birds cost Tk 20,000 a month to keep against Tk 30,000-35,000 of sales.

Capital
৳15k – ৳1.5 lakh
People
1 – 2
First income
45 – 75 days
Editorial estimate
Light manufacturing & workshop

Concrete block making

Making and selling cement-sand-chip blocks. A hollow block sells for Tk 32-50 and replaces five bricks. The deadline for 100 percent block use in government work expired in June 2025 and was missed.

Capital
৳12 lakh – ৳45 lakh
People
3 – 12
First income
30 – 90 days
Market quote
Agriculture & farming

Milk collection and supply

Buying milk from farmers and delivering it to chilling centres and shops. Farmers get Tk 35-50 a litre and plants pay Tk 48-58; that gap is the business.

Capital
৳50k – ৳4 lakh
People
1 – 4
First income
7 – 21 days
Editorial estimate