The Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) has recorded production exceeding 10,000 tonnes for the fifth consecutive week.

According to a GuySuCo press release, the corporation has not had such an achievement since the second crop of 2004. It said too this achievement comes at a time when it is aggressively seeking to increase production, through the implementation of several initiatives including boosting communication between management and workers across its eight estates.

Grinding for the second crop started at July month-end with a 20-week expected duration. The projected target for production during this period is over 160,000 tonnes of sugar of which over 50,000 tonnes have been produced during the past five weeks. Due to last week’s production workers from five estates: Skeldon, Albion, Rose Hall, Blairmont and Enmore; earned an additional day’s pay as an incentive for achieving their weekly production target.

The release said that in addition to production, the corporation is focused on its replanting programme which stood at 2,026 hectares last weekend. An additional 651 hectares are available to plant. Land preparation activities are also progressing with 3,770 hectares completed to date, while tillage of another 1,034 hectares is currently in progress.

GuySuCo is also focused on its Skeldon Expansion Programme where for the year a total of 229.6 hectares have been completed while private cane farmers have cultivated an additional 338.4 hectares. In an effort to further accelerate its overall expansion programme, GuySuCo has enlisted the services of several contractors who started work at the beginning of the second crop at the Skeldon, Albion, Blairmont, East Demerara and Wales estates.