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41 businesses
Light manufacturing & workshopMachine-stitching thread designs onto cloth as a job for others. The customers are cap factories, boutiques and saree workshops. What takes fifteen days by hand, the machine does in hours.
Agriculture & farmingRearing 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.
Light manufacturing & workshopWeaving 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.
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.
Agriculture & farmingMaking 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.
Agriculture & farmingGrowing napier fodder for cattle farms. One planting yields for four to five years with four to six cuts a year, and surplus grass off one bigha brings Tk 30,000-35,000 extra a year.
Light manufacturing & workshopHand-woven sarees on a wooden loom. Sarees sell from Tk 1,500 to Tk 300,000 while a weaver earns about Tk 4,590 a month, because the margin stays with the mahajan.
Food processingBuying paddy, parboiling and hulling it, and selling the rice. 24,000 kg of paddy gives 15,000 kg of rice, and the husk, bran and broken grain return another Tk 6.45 on every kilo sold.
Retail & wholesaleBuying rice by the sack at the mokam and selling it to retail shops. Dhaka wholesale coarse rice is Tk 43-45 against Tk 50-55 retail, but the wholesaler keeps only 50 paisa to one taka a kilo.
Food processingBuying raw milk at Tk 45-55 a litre and turning it into curd and chhana. Yield per litre and spoilage decide whether it makes money.
Agriculture & farmingBuying 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.
Agriculture & farmingBuying 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.
Agriculture & farmingKeeping bees in boxes and harvesting honey. Honey runs Tk 650-1,200 a kg depending on the flower, but bottling under your own name needs BSTI certification with a Tk 7,500 test fee.
Food processingMaking sweets from chhana and selling them over a counter. Sweets run Tk 380-600 a kg and doi Tk 210-300 a litre, but milk is Tk 120-140 a litre, so the margin is the milk price.
Agriculture & farmingBuying five to six month old khasi, feeding them up and selling at the Qurbani haat. In May 2026 Chattogram haats paid Tk 8,000-15,000 for small goats and Tk 40,000-50,000 for large ones; big crossbreeds went at Tk 700-800 a kilo.
Food processingCrushing mustard seed for oil and cake. A maund of seed gives 16-19 litres of oil and 25 kg of cake; net of the cake a litre costs Tk 96-114 to make and sells loose at Tk 200.
Food processingPlace bee boxes in winter mustard fields, strain and bottle the honey, sell all year.
