Asia’s chocolate bonanza spurs quest for locally grown beans


Date & Time: 2019-08-26 11:16:17

Asia’s cocoa industry is scouring for ways to boost local bean supplies as the region’s chocoholics munch through more candy than ever. Asia’s a hotbed for cocoa demand, and Indonesia is well placed to take advantage of that trend by increasing output and selling more cocoa products, Asia’s processing of cocoa beans jumped by about 30% in the three years to the end of 2018 and continued to rise in the first half of this year,