Asia’s Biggest Cocoa Grower Has a Chocolate Problem. This Icy Treat May Be the Answer
- Craze for Es Kepal Milo may help boost cocoa consumption
- Indonesian cocoa production shrinks as farmers switch crops
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Asia’s biggest cocoa grower has a chocolate problem.
Cocoa production in the 130-year old industry in Indonesia is set to shrink for the third straight year as farmers switch to other crops and annual per capita consumption of chocolate languishes at just 11 ounces (300 grams) - half the rate of neighboring Malaysia, according to Euromonitor International.