> It's not so long since Vietnam went from not growing coffee to being one of the world’s largest producers in under 20 years. I bet they could do it with cocoa

> It's not so long since Vietnam went from not growing coffee to being one of the world’s largest producers in under 20 years. I bet they could do it with cocoa too. But there is a finite number of farmlands available. For asian countries to up their cocoa production, they must take a portion of farmlands from other crops, or burn more rainforest to make more farmlands, neither of which is good in the long term.