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Mixed experienceA bhapa pitha seller in Sylhet, in a Prothom Alo report

Cloth gave way to a pitha cart, and 500-600 taka a day

Unable to fund restocking, he left the cloth trade for a bhapa pitha cart: 6-7 kg of rice flour a day, 25-26 pithas from each kilo at 10 taka each, and 500-600 taka left after expenses.

This man moved his family of five from Dirai in Sunamganj to Sylhet city three years ago. He had been selling cloth, but he never had the cash in hand to restock, sales kept falling and he gave the trade up. He now pushes a cart selling bhapa pitha through the winter, using 6-7 kg of rice flour a day, getting 25-26 pithas from each kilo and selling them at 10 taka each. He works until 9 p.m. and clears 500-600 taka after expenses. Money is still short, but the family now eats twice a day, which it could not before.

Lessons

  1. 1.A trade that needs constant restocking fails without a reserve; a low-inventory food cart survived where cloth did not
  2. 2.Know the yield: 25-26 pithas per kg of flour at 10 taka each is what makes the daily arithmetic work

Published with the person's permission, without revealing who they are.

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