Real experiences, published anonymously and with permission.
A rooftop plant seller in Mohanpur, Rajshahi, in a Prothom Alo report
Agriculture & farmingRajshahi
Started in late 2021, the rooftop now holds over a thousand plants including 200-plus adenium varieties. Average monthly income exceeds a lakh taka, and August sales reached 3 lakh.
A nursery owner in Sripur, Gazipur, in a Prothom Alo report
Agriculture & farmingGazipur
Four or five years of selling papaya, brinjal and chilli seedlings from her yard led to a nursery beside the house around 1995. Five nurseries over roughly 30 bighas now employ about 30 people.
A woman growing mushrooms in Atrai, Naogaon, in a Prothom Alo report
Agriculture & farmingNaogaon
She started at home in 2023 with 10,000 taka and 50 spawn packets; 400 packets now give 5-6 kg a day, 40,000-45,000 taka of monthly sales and 25,000-30,000 taka of net income.
A vermicompost producer in Tala, Satkhira, in a Prothom Alo report
Agriculture & farmingSatkhira
He started in 2014 with three trial beds and 20,000 taka. Three hundred beds over four bighas now make about 20 tonnes every six weeks, bringing 2.5 lakh taka a cycle and more than 50,000 taka of profit.
A beekeeper in Sharsha, Jashore, in a Bangla Tribune report
Agriculture & farmingJashore
Beekeeping since 2007, now about 250 colonies. Each box yields around 2 kg of honey per collection, and after all costs the year brings 2.5 to 3 lakh taka.
A poultry farmer in Mahadevpur, Naogaon, in a Prothom Alo report
Agriculture & farmingNaogaon
He fenced off his own yard and began with 300 chicks bought for 15,000 taka. Seven years on, about 40 lakh taka is tied up in the farm and it earns around 8 lakh a year.
A duck farmer in Tarash, Sirajganj, in a Prothom Alo report
Agriculture & farmingSirajganj
Twenty years of duck rearing. He is raising 400 ducklings bought at 26 taka each, sells eggs to hatcheries at 11-12 taka, and recently sold 200 ducks for 70,000 taka.
A college student running a quail farm in Gopalganj, in an Ajker Patrika report
Agriculture & farmingGopalganj
He started with 35,000 taka saved from freelancing and 500 quail chicks, losing about half of it for want of training. The farm now holds 1,500 birds and 900 eggs a day, leaving 50,000-60,000 taka a month after costs.
A former layer-farm owner in Kishoreganj, in a Samakal report
Agriculture & farmingKishoreganj
A 300-bird layer farm gave 290 eggs a day at 10 taka each, about 2,900 taka of daily income. Bird flu killed 100 hens; he sold the remaining 200 and closed, putting the loss at about a lakh taka.
A turkey farmer in Sreepur, Gazipur, in a Business Standard Bangla report
Agriculture & farmingGazipur
The farm opened in early 2019 with about 250,000 taka and 70 chicks, selling 40-50 hatching eggs a week at 400 taka a dozen. The only buyers were people starting turkey farms, and it closed in February 2020.
A sheep farmer in Taraganj, Rangpur, in a Prothom Alo report
Agriculture & farmingRangpur
Five sheep bought for 17,000 taka in February 2017 with money from selling rice became 13 in the first year and 90 now, earning about 30,000 taka a month after costs.
A buffalo farmer in Kaharole, Dinajpur, in a Prothom Alo report
Agriculture & farmingDinajpur
He began in 2016 with 13 local cattle. The farm now holds 45 cattle and 52 Indian crossbred buffaloes on 107 decimals, selling on a three-month cycle at a minimum of 70,000 to 1 lakh taka a buffalo.
