China intensifies cocoa plantations and could become a new global production hub

The interest of the Chinese seems to go beyond chocolate. Farmers in the southern province of Hainan, employing advanced cultivation technology, present themselves as the newest players in global cocoa production. First exports - Belgium News of the first exports to the demanding Belgian market, brought great fears to African controllers. Currently producing the best quality standards in large volumes, Ghanaians have always been the biggest exporters to the demanding markets in Europe. The Chinese, besides signaling to produce in scale, demonstrate that they want to deliver excellence in quality to global chocolate makers Asia: Rising demand and declining production The great opportunity for the Chinese is mainly related to the considerable increase in consumption of derivatives and the fall in cocoa production on the Asian continent. On the positive side, India presents itself as the market with the highest growth in chocolate consumption in the world, reaching elevation ...