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31 businesses

Digital & B2B services

Land survey and amin service

Measuring land with chain and tape or with instruments, and matching the map against what is actually held. The paperwork now has fixed government prices: a mouza map is Tk 630 and a khatian online is Tk 100. The amin's own fee has no official rate.

Capital
৳1k – ৳61k
People
1 – 4
First income
3 – 30 days
Editorial estimate
Food processing

Paneer and chhana making

Milk split into chhana, pressed into paneer. 8-10 kg of milk makes 1 kg of paneer, which sells at Tk 900-1,200 a kg - the whole business is the gap between the two prices.

Capital
৳50k – ৳20 lakh
People
1 – 10
First income
7 – 135 days
Editorial estimate
Agriculture & farming

Biogas plant

Cooking gas and organic fertiliser out of cow dung. This is not an income business but a cost-saving one: the plant costs Tk 28,000-50,000 and saves about Tk 4,000 a month in fuel plus Tk 2,000-2,500 from selling the surplus fertiliser.

Capital
৳28k – ৳50k
People
1 – 2
First income
15 – 90 days
Practitioner verified
Agriculture & farming

Cotton farming

Sold at the price the Cotton Development Board sets, Tk 3,900 a maund of seed cotton in 2025-26. At the national average yield of about 7.6 maunds a bigha that is roughly Tk 30,000 a bigha for six to seven months of land.

Capital
৳16k – ৳1 lakh
People
1 – 6
First income
150 – 240 days
Editorial estimate
Agriculture & farming

Vegetable seed production

Growing seed, not vegetables. BADC's 2026-27 schedule prices bottle gourd seed at Tk 1,050 a kg, tomato at Tk 2,600 and hybrid tomato at Tk 26,000 — and selling it needs a seed dealer registration costing Tk 2,000.

Capital
৳50k – ৳5 lakh
People
2 – 10
First income
150 – 300 days
Editorial estimate
Agriculture & farming

Ginger and turmeric farming

A 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.

Capital
৳20k – ৳2.5 lakh
People
1 – 6
First income
75 – 315 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

Mustard farming

The 80-90 day crop that fits between the Aman harvest and Boro planting. Mustard seed averaged Tk 91.27 a kg wholesale nationally in August 2026, about Tk 3,651 a maund, and the government hands out Tk 550.50 worth of inputs per bigha.

Capital
৳5k – ৳50k
People
1 – 4
First income
75 – 110 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
Home & local services

Veterinary medicine and service

Selling animal medicines and giving treatment. Treatment needs Veterinary Council registration, the establishment needs Council recognition, and the licence to sell medicine comes from DGDA.

Capital
৳1.5 lakh – ৳8 lakh
People
1 – 4
First income
60 – 150 days
Editorial estimate
Agriculture & farming

Sheep rearing

Rearing 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.

Capital
৳30k – ৳2.5 lakh
People
1 – 3
First income
180 – 365 days
Editorial estimate
Food processing

Khoi and batasa making

Popping paddy into khoi and boiling sugar or gur into batasa and kadma. Wholesale sugar is Tk 102-103 a kg and batasa sells at Tk 190-300. Very low capital and no BSTI CM licence.

Capital
৳15k – ৳1.5 lakh
People
2 – 6
First income
10 – 40 days
Editorial estimate
Light manufacturing & workshop

Hosiery unit: socks and vests

A 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.

Capital
৳2 lakh – ৳25 lakh
People
5 – 100
First income
30 – 90 days
Editorial estimate
Food processing

Ghee and butter making

Separating milk into butter and ghee, with chhana or yogurt from the skim. One maund (40 kg) of milk gives 1.25 kg of ghee; cost about Tk 2,900 against Tk 3,040-3,260 of sales - a 5 to 11 percent margin.

Capital
৳60k – ৳4 lakh
People
2 – 6
First income
15 – 60 days
Editorial estimate
Agriculture & farming

Aloe vera farming

Cutting aloe leaves and selling them to companies. About Tk 50,000 a bigha to grow and Tk 1.5-2.5 lakh of leaves, but the only buyers are a few pharmaceutical and juice companies.

Capital
৳50k – ৳2 lakh
People
1 – 6
First income
90 – 120 days
Practitioner verified
Light manufacturing & workshop

Rope and twine making

Twisting 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.

Capital
৳40k – ৳6 lakh
People
2 – 15
First income
15 – 60 days
Editorial estimate
Digital & B2B services

Samity and microcredit lending

Savings groups and small loans. An MRA certificate is compulsory, and new applications have been suspended since 4 November 2024. The service charge ceiling is 24 percent on the declining balance.

Capital
৳15 lakh – ৳52 lakh
People
3 – 15
First income
35 – 70 days
Editorial estimate
Home & local services

Physiotherapy centre

A 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.

Capital
৳3 lakh – ৳15 lakh
People
2 – 8
First income
60 – 180 days
Editorial estimate
Agriculture & farming

Dairy cattle farm

Rearing 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.

Capital
৳2.5 lakh – ৳12 lakh
People
1 – 6
First income
7 – 60 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
Light manufacturing & workshop

Bedsheet and home textile

Weaving bed sheets and home textiles on power looms for the wholesale haats. One loom makes 8-15 pieces a day, and a plain double bed sheet set retails at Tk 389-489.

Capital
৳1.5 lakh – ৳15 lakh
People
3 – 12
First income
30 – 75 days
Editorial estimate
Food processing

Cattle feed mill

Grinding 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.

Capital
৳2 lakh – ৳15 lakh
People
2 – 8
First income
30 – 75 days
Editorial estimate
Agriculture & farming

Vermicompost production

Making 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.

Capital
৳5k – ৳60k
People
1 – 2
First income
30 – 50 days
Editorial estimate
Light manufacturing & workshop

Jute handicraft

Making bags, pots and showpieces from jute. Tk 2,000 of scissors and rope starts it by hand, but an export order needs a workshop, and ten machines cost about Tk 500,000.

Capital
৳2k – ৳10 lakh
People
1 – 40
First income
7 – 120 days
Practitioner verified