date:Jul 16, 2014
Asia since 2009 as Cargill Inc. and Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. added bean-processing plants.
Growth in Asian demand has contributed to a rally in cocoa, the key ingredient for chocolate, which climbed to the highest level since August 2011 in New York on July 3. Rising consumption in emerging markets including China and India may spur shortages that extend into the next decade, with the global bean deficit seen reaching 1 million metric tons by 2020, according to Hardman Co., a London-based re