Monday, December 02, 2024

Indonesia cocoa crunch stuns chocolate makers in Asia

It stuns me too! More bad news for chocolate lovers like me!

"Indonesia, Asia's largest producer of cocoa beans, has seen harvests of the raw material for chocolate halved from 2015 to 2023. From its Malaysian factory in the state of Johor, Italian agro-food company Unigra makes ingredients from chocolate chips to cocoa powder used by confectioners for export across Asia to markets such as China, Taiwan and Thailand. ... 

costs of obtaining cocoa raw materials have surged threefold this year."

Indonesia cocoa crunch stuns chocolate makers in Asia - Nikkei Asia "Climate change and farming worries spur push for substitutes as prices soar"

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