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39 businesses
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.
Agriculture & farmingRaising day-old chicks to live birds in about a month. Farm-gate prices swung from Tk 110 to Tk 198 a kg during 2026 against a production cost of roughly Tk 140.
Agriculture & farming350-400 plants to a bigha, fruit in 10-13 months. Tk 150-200 a plant to grow, Tk 350-450 a bunch to sell, and the extension department puts profit at Tk 120-180 a plant.
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.
Home & local servicesA centre caring for working parents' children through the day. Registration is compulsory under the 2021 Act: running one without it risks two years in jail or a Tk 5-10 lakh fine.
Food processingBuying 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.
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 processingFrying rice into muri. One kilo of rice gives 900 grams of muri and coarse rice costs Tk 50-55/kg, so machine muri keeps only Tk 4-6 a kilo while hand-fried pure muri wholesales at Tk 90.
Agriculture & farmingThe Department of Fisheries measures pond yield at a national average of 4.96 tonnes per hectare: 12.72 in Mymensingh, 2.01 in Rangamati. The district decides the income.
Agriculture & farmingFeed alone is Tk 7.90-9.30 per egg and full production cost Tk 8.50-10. Through mid-2026 farmers were getting Tk 6-6.80, a loss on every egg.
Food processingPlace bee boxes in winter mustard fields, strain and bottle the honey, sell all year.
