Indonesia revises up cocoa exports

Indonesia has revised up figures on cocoa bean exports from its main growing area on Sulawesi island as some shipments were previously not counted.
Indonesian Cocoa Association (Askindo) data showed on Thursday that cocoa bean exports in 2006 fell by 31.4 percent to 132,632 tonnes from 193,358 the previous year. Exports in December 2006 alone, however, rose by 21.5 percent to 24,584 tonnes from 20,232 in the same month a year before.
Askindo previously put exports in 2006 at 117,098 tonnes and in December at 9,050 tonnes. The cocoa beans came mostly from South Sulawesi and a small amount from Southeast Sulawesi. Indonesia is the world's third-largest cocoa producer after Ivory Coast and Ghana. Sulawesi accounts for 75 percent of the country's total output.