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39 businesses
Light manufacturing & workshopBringing weak lead-acid batteries back with electrolyte correction and slow charging. Breaking batteries open and smelting the lead is a completely different trade - an offence without Department of Environment clearance, and only 7 of about 1,100 such operations in the country hold one.
Food processingMilk 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.
Agriculture & farmingCooking 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.
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.
Agriculture & farmingSown 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.
Agriculture & farmingThe 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.
Food processingPopping 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.
Food processingSeparating 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.
Light manufacturing & workshopTwisting 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.
Food processingBuying raw honey from keepers, straining and bottling it under your own label. Bottled honey runs Tk 800-2,100 a kg, but a BSTI CM licence is compulsory and the sample test alone is Tk 7,500.
Agriculture & farmingFruit within six to seven months. About Tk 50,000 a bigha to grow, a wholesale rate of Tk 20-65 a kilo, and Tk 2 to 2.5 lakh of papaya possible off a bigha.
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.
Light manufacturing & workshopMaking batik and tie-dye sarees and three-pieces at home with wax and dye on cotton. Cumilla shops sell batik sarees from Tk 500 to Tk 1,700, and one karigar can finish about ten sarees a day.
Agriculture & farmingLeasing 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.
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.
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.
Home & local servicesTeaching sewing and handicraft on a few machines at home. The fee comes at the start of the course, but the government runs six-month trade courses for Tk 300-1,000, and that is the price to beat.
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.
Digital & B2B servicesA licensed agency sending workers abroad. A new licence needs a Tk 35 lakh security deposit plus about Tk 4 lakh in fees, and doing this work without a licence carries up to five years in jail.
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 & farmingCage-reared quail. Laying starts in 35-45 days; an egg costs about Tk 1.20 to produce and sells wholesale at Tk 2.80-3.50. The market is narrow, and the bigger money is in selling chicks.
Light manufacturing & workshopTrousers stitch for Tk 600: Tk 220 to the karigor, Tk 90 other costs, Tk 290 to the shop. One karigor does five trousers or ten shirts a day. The real money is sub-contract work, and its rules just tightened.
