USAID's agribusiness project encourages entrepreneur to explore opportunities
Joseph Ununu, 45, learned early in life to grow rice; it was a family vocation. But a pest infestation of rice fields in Abakaliki, Eastern Nigeria, in the 1990s, took the zeal off him. The pests devastated his four-hectare rice farm, forcing him to shift attention to milling, which only earned marginal incomes to look after his family.