Fisheries industry:

In Cox's Bazar district, 18 percent of rural households earn their livelihood through fishing in trawler or boat. The fishes here are supplied to the whole country as well as exported at abroad. Many of them lead their livelihood by catching shrimp at the sea shore. Different species of Freshwater and salt water Fisheries are found in the region, which have economic importance. For rearing, breeding and roaming of different fish species, Kutubdia and Maheshkhali channels is geographically important. It is noted that the saline water in this area is also suitable for fish farming. During the rainy and paddy cultivation season fishes are caught in the seas, estuarine, canals, rivers, bills of this district. Applying scientific method in fish cultivation it has a good opportunity to create huge employment opportunity as well as filling the domestic demand and earning foreign currency by exporting.

Shrimp industry

Shrimp is widely cultivated in the coastal area of Cox’s Bazar. Bagda and Lobster shrimp is exporting abroad after meeting the local demand. For this purpose, Shrimp Pona Production Industry (hatchery) and shrimp food making industries varieties have been developed locally. There is a significant number of employment opportunities created through this industry.

Salt industry:

As far as it is known from various reliable sources, salt cultivation begins in the fifteenth century in Cox's Bazar district. In 17^th century, with the support of the East India Company salt business started commercially, but in the 18^th century, the English government started importing salt form England by banning salt production in this country. Then, during the second world war a local person started salt production by cleaning the coastal land. It is notable that in 1947, a person started salt cultivation with a long-term settlement of 120 acres of land in Gomatali Mouza of Cox's Bazar Sadar Upazila. Since then, salt production begins on commercial basis. Salt farmers are usually poor and cultivate salt by taking land from the other. Most salt farmers live in nearby areas on the shores of the sea and they have to deal with the adverse natural environment daily. According to Bangladesh Small and Cottage Industries Association, there are 63,532 acres of salt field in Cox's Bazar district. From these salt fields, a total of 935,000 tons of salt was produced in 2004-2005. It is noteworthy that there are 43500 salt farmers in Cox’s Bazar. To improve the quality of salt and increase the production BSCIC has started production of salt in polythene system. This system increased the 30 percent more production than the traditional system with quality.

Dry fish industry:

In addition to various species of fish cultivation, lots of dry fish is produced in the mainland and islands of the Cox’s Bazar district. Among them, Cox's Bazar Sadar Upazila, Sonadia, Moheshkhali and St. Martin area are one among them. In the dry season fisherman dry fish on open field, courtyard and jetties using mud, mat and bamboo shelfs considering the fish species. In this method, dry fish are attacked by insects. Recently, the Solar Tunnel Dryer system is introduced to dry fish. Bangladesh is earning valuable foreign currency by exporting these dry fish to Southeast Asia and the Middle East. It is noteworthy that 25-30 percent of the fishes catch in the Bay of Bengal are processed as dry fish. A lot of foreign currency is earned by exporting dried fish such as Shark Fin, Fees Liver Oil, Airborne, etc.

Handicrafts Industry:

Cox's Bazar is traditionally rich for handicrafts. Rakhaina of Arakan descent engaged in various handicrafts sector. They made various types of clothes, made garments, towels, bags, etc. these handicrafts are widely accepted in the country and abroad. Apart from this, there is a special demand for various types of sculpture of women, animals and animals in the production of timber produced by Rakhain community.

Crabs: Kakra (Crabs) is the second exportable fisheries product after the shrimp. Crab Fattening system at the intermediate level between the accumulation and sale of crab has created huge potential for the development of agriculture-based economy of the district.

Tourism industry: Beach Cox's Bazar District is one of the tourism areas of Bangladesh. Every year many domestic and foreign tourists visiting this district. Here located the world’s longest sandy beach along with may spectacular sights and archaeological views. The sea beach management committee has been increasing the infrastructural facilities for the benefit of the tourists for the last three years. Considering the tourism industry more than hundred motels have been established including five-star hotel. Due to the development of the tourism industry in Cox’s Bazar huge job opportunities have been created. 

Mineral resources: It is possible to get about 8 types of heave minerals in the 120 km long beach sand of Cox’s Bazar. These heavy minerals are found in 17 places in Bangladesh's coastal areas. Among them Cox's Bazar beach, Maheshkhali, Teknaf, Inani, Badar Mokam, Matarbari are one of the. It is to be noted that the search of mineral sand was started in 1961 in Cox's Bazar district. Later, a group of national and Australian geologists from 1967, studied for nearly a decade and found that around 1159 square kilometers of Cox's Bazar covers the area of precious minerals like Zircon, Ilmainite, Magnetite, Kanyeet, Monajite. If these minerals are processed, they will make significant contributions to the development of the country’s mineral resources.

Forest resources: The main forests of Cox's Bazar district are Phulchhari ranges, Dumuriyagona ranges, Meherghona ranges, Bakkhali ranges etc. In addition, there are forests in Inani, Ramu, Ukhia and Teknaf areas. Segun, Mehnai, Chapaliish, Keora, Bain are the main trees produced in these forests. Bamboo, cane, honey, wax production is possible in the Sunderbans of Chakaria region. In the same way, Ramu's rubber gardens will play an important role in the development of the rubber industry of the country. Apart from protecting the coastal forestland of Kutubdia and Moheshkhali Islands, it will be possible to maintain fuel, house building, protect against cyclone and protect coastal embankments as well as nurturing miscarriage and breeding grounds.

Betel and Betel nut: Mithapan (sweet betel) is well-known in Maheshkhali upazila of Cox's Bazar district. Betel and betel nut is cultivating in almost all the upazilas of the Cox’s Bazar district. In Pakistan and Middle East countries, there is considerable sweet betel lovers. This is a great opportunity to create employment opportunities besides earning a lot of foreign currency through exporting abroad by cultivating well-developed and modern processing of this Mithapan (sweet betel).

Foreign Employment: A significant number of people of Cox's Bazar district are living in different countries including the Middle East. In addition to earning foreign currency, employment opportunities are significantly increasing