VIETNAM – Cocoa production may reach 5,000 tons next year

MILAN – The Government should pour more funding into the cocoa industry to develop it further, according to Doan Trieu Nhan, a senior consultant for the Vietnam Association of Coffee-Cocoa. The cocoa market is still in its initial phase of development in Vietnam.

Overall production in 2008-09 reached 1,000 tonnes of processed cocoa, almost three-times higher than the previous crop. The output could reach 5,000 tonnes next year.