Cocoa not-so-boom
The Herald is enthusing about the new worlds of chocolate, and the boom in consumption in various parts of the world.
Japan aside, chocolate sales are also growing 30 per cent year on year in China, while in India – even though one in two Indians have never tasted chocolate – growth is 20 per cent, for a treat taken ultra sweet and milky.
The Quarterly Bulletin of Cocoa Statistics, as you would expect from the name, takes a less effervescent attitude. Their data show a steady increase of about 3% per year for the past decade, with modest year-to-year fluctuations in production smoothed out by stockpiles.
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That’s not a badly little graphic for something that looks like it came from Excel (Or maybe it’s not a bad little Excel emulation from another package)
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