Cheated by fake honey, he quit his job, built his own test lab, and now earns Tk10–12 lakh a year selling honey

In 2003 his father fell ill and the doctor advised honey. This man in Chattogram found that most of the honey in the market was being sold in old bottles; the bottle he bought after much searching also later proved to be adulterated. At the time he worked at a buying house. He quit that job to go into the honey business, although people he knew told him it was hard to survive in business with honey.

In 2005 he stayed a few days with beekeepers in the mustard fields of Sirajganj and collected about 20 kg of honey. Looking for Sundarbans honey, he saw a mahajan mixing sugar syrup into honey — so he went himself by boat to the honey-hunters' (mouals') villages. He studied BSTI standards and pored over foreign journals; he bought a refractometer, a microscope and a pH meter, and at a college botany department learned to identify the source of honey by looking at pollen. At home he has set up a small research centre with samples of 72 kinds of honey.

To put the work on an institutional footing he founded a company; at its office in Chattogram city, mustard, black cumin, lychee and Sundarbans goran-gewa flower honey are sold. According to a 2026 Prothom Alo report, his annual income is Tk 10 to 12 lakh. He also won first prize at the National Bee Fair in 2018 and 2019.