Asia's Q4 cocoa grind falls 4.2% to 217,546 T

SINGAPORE: Asia's fourth-quarter cocoa grind fell 4.2% from a year earlier to 217,546 tonnes, data from the Cocoa Association of Asia (CAA) showed on Friday.

Quarter on quarter, the cocoa grind rose 7.3%, it said.

For 2020, the cocoa grind fell 5.3% to 830,241 tonnes from 876,331 tonnes a year earlier, it said.

The CAA groups together cocoa grinders in Malaysia, Singapore and Indonesia.