Cocoa exporting is big business in Mekong Delta

by Joe DiStefano, Posted May 21st 2006 @ 6:05PM

Cacao trees have been grown in southern Vietnam for a good six years. Now the Mekong Delta has joined the country's other provinces. Ben Tre province recently began exporting processed cocoa with a whopping 12-ton shipment to the U.K. And it plans to keep up the pace with another 12-ton batch next month.
The province has 5,000 acres of cacao trees and plans to expand to 25,000 by 2010. That's a lot of processed cocoa. I'm all for the economic development of Vietnamese agriculture, but my secret hope is that the Brits start doing some really interesting things with chocolate now that they have all that cocoa.

[photo: Thanh Nien News]

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Tags: asia, british isles, cacao, chocolate, cocoa, dessert, Mekong Delta, MekongDelta, nuts, seeds, Vietnam