date:Jan 24, 2013
Cocoa bean exports from Indonesia, the largest producer after Ivory Coast and Ghana, will decline for the fourth straight year to the lowest in more than a decade on increased demand from local grinders, a growers group said.
Exports may tumble as much as 26 percent to 100,000 metric tons this year, according to Dakhri Sanusi, secretary-general of the Indonesian Cocoa Association. Shipments were 210,067 tons in 2011, 432,427 tons in 2010 and 439,305 tons in 2009, data from the group showed. A t