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14 businesses
Digital & B2B servicesRunning organised tours. It is not lawful without registration from the Bangladesh Tourism Board, and the 2024 rules require a Tk 300,000 non-refundable fee, a Tk 1,000,000 bank solvency certificate and a Tk 50,000 security deposit with the application.
Agriculture & farmingGrowing agar trees, driving nails into them to force the resin, and selling the wood or the attar. The first money arrives 8 to 16 years after planting, and exporting needs a CITES no-objection certificate from the Forest Department.
Agriculture & farmingPlanting 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.
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.
Home & local servicesRunning a small resort or cottage in a tourist area. Sajek fills completely in peak season, but the season is short and one 2025 fire destroyed 94 resorts and cottages.
Digital & B2B servicesRenting boats and trawlers for fishing, cargo and tourists. Diesel is Tk 115 a litre, and hilsa fishing is fully banned for 22 days from 8 to 29 October 2026.
Agriculture & farmingOrchards of green malta and orange. National output went from 17,000 to 84,000 tonnes in six years, and local malta in Dhaka has fallen to Tk 80-120 a kilo.
Light manufacturing & workshopSplitting 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.
Agriculture & farmingCashew and coffee orchards on hill land. Farmers get Tk 180-200 a kg for raw cashew and Tk 350-400 for raw coffee, but the first crop comes three to four years after planting for coffee and four to five for cashew.
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.
Retail & wholesaleUnloading truckloads of fruit and selling by the crate to retail shops. Badamtoli turns over about Tk 40 crore a day, and opening a crate can show 25-33 percent rotten.
Agriculture & farmingGrowing dragon fruit on posts. One to four lakh taka a bigha up front, first fruit about a year later, and a price that has fallen from Tk 500 to Tk 80-100 a kilo in Karwan Market.
Light manufacturing & workshopBuilding beds, wardrobes and tables to order. An MDF bed starts near Tk 12,000 and a solid teak king bed runs to Tk 1,80,000 - but the timber is paid for first and the money comes after delivery.
Home & local servicesRenting rooms by the night. A one-star hotel pays Tk 42,000 in registration and licence fees before opening and must have at least 10 rooms; government motel room rates run Tk 900-4,500.
