date:May 22, 2014
ia is being boosted by new facilities being built by multinational companies such as Cargill, Olam International Ltd and Barry Callebaut.
Olam plans to invest $61 million to build a cocoa-processing plant in Indonesia, its first in Asia, while Cargill has commissioned a plant there.
But the expansion is facing a steep shortfall of beans, dealers have said, fuelling a likely jump in imports from West Africa.
Barry Callebaut supplies food groups such as Nestle , Unilever and Mondelez.
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