VegetablesSelina Akter of Pirgachha, Rangpur, grows vegetables in two seasons on an acre beside her home, sells 60,000-70,000 taka worth a month and clears 30,000-40,000 taka, using organic manure and vermicompost.
Rooftop farmingSharmin Akter sells seedlings and pots from her three-tier rooftop garden in Rajshahi's Binodpur, earning about Tk 12 lakh a year. The garden won first place for rooftop gardens in the national tree plantation award.
LivestockTwenty-three years ago Bibi Rahima of Darbeshpur in Noakhali Sadar hatched 10 borrowed duck eggs under a hen; today her farm of about 16 acres has fish enclosures, cattle and goats, over 500 ducks, 350 chickens and vegetables.
AgribusinessOn eight decimals of land at her home in Shibchar, Madaripur, Tanjila Akhi has built a garden of 1,148 plant species, mostly indoor plants, and says online sales bring her more than Tk 2 lakh a month.
AgribusinessIssah Tolhatu started processing soybeans as a food science student in Northern Ghana; with AGRA support her firm Grainwell now handles up to 100 kg a day and buys from six women farmers.
VegetablesSibahle Sifo, who once avoided farm chores, now grows 5,000 cabbage seedlings at a time and sells to street vendors and Spar, after a June 2025 flood wiped out her first crop.
VegetablesBernice Yawo Agboada founded Mushroom General to grow and process oyster mushrooms, promote their nutrition and open farming to women and persons with disabilities, AGRA reports.
Dilruba Khatun of Meherpur now keeps about 1,000 ducks and hatches some 2,000 ducklings a week in a 36,000-egg incubator, three years after starting with Tk 30,000.
Homestead farmingIn Khankandi, Zajira, Irin Akter planted ginger in 200 sacks and expects to sell about Tk 40,000 worth after costs; each sack yields one to one and a half kilos.
FruitsUnpaid when schools shut during Covid, Mranuching Marma began raising saplings from mango stones in Khagrachhari; her one-acre nursery now earns about Tk 20 lakh a year.
In a column for Food for Mzansi, Sacau chief executive Ishmael Sunga argues that youth- and women-led poultry businesses need blended finance, shared infrastructure and offtake contracts to grow from survival farming into medium-scale enterprises.
LivestockSharmin Akter of Gurudaspur lost about Tk 100,000 on her first batch of Sonali chickens seven years ago; she now keeps about 2,000 Kazi Farms red pullet layers and has put in some Tk 700,000.
LivestockSinethemba Gebashe began with a mud-brick broiler house in 2011, lost it to heavy rain, and with municipal help and R400,000 in provincial funding now supplies eggs to wholesalers and aims for 5,000 layers.
