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7 businesses

Agriculture & farming

Date palm sap and gur

Tapping 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.

Capital
৳10k – ৳60k
People
1 – 4
First income
20 – 35 days
Editorial estimate
Agriculture & farming

Onion farming

Two 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.

Capital
৳30k – ৳2.5 lakh
People
2 – 10
First income
90 – 150 days
Editorial estimate
Agriculture & farming

Mango orchard leasing and trading

Leasing 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.

Capital
৳42k – ৳30 lakh
People
2 – 10
First income
180 – 270 days
Editorial estimate
Retail & wholesale

Onion and garlic storage trading

Buying 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.

Capital
৳70k – ৳4.7 lakh
People
1 – 4
First income
90 – 250 days
Editorial estimate
Agriculture & farming

Nursery and sapling production

Raising saplings in poly bags for sale. Retail pays the bills, but supplying government and NGO plantation programmes is the real income — mango saplings are priced at Tk 60 there.

Capital
৳50k – ৳5 lakh
People
1 – 8
First income
30 – 365 days
Editorial estimate
Agriculture & farming

Cattle fattening

Buying 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.

Capital
৳1.5 lakh – ৳8 lakh
People
1 – 4
First income
120 – 365 days
Editorial estimate
Food processing

Banana ripening chamber

Buying 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.

Capital
৳2 lakh – ৳20 lakh
People
2 – 8
First income
30 – 90 days
Editorial estimate