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.
….this is for those callin de shots ! all the cane MUST be harvested b4 the end of october !….
This is good news. Thanks to all the hard working sugar workers and I suspect improved leadership from Mr Hanoman and Dr Gopaul.
Good stuff
SN: We have been getting the rosy picture out of Guysuco for some time. Time to ask some hard questions.
Five Estates have surpassed their targets and qualified for incentives. Has the level of production on these five estates made good on the shortfall from the remaining three? i.e. LBI, Uitvlugt and Wales? In other words, is Guysuco achieving its overall industry target on a weekly basis?
The same applies to the replanting programme. What is the overall status of hectares planted against budget. In other words if you have planted 2026 hectares as of last weekend, how many hectares did you PLAN to have finished planting by last weekend? Secondly, the real proof of that performance will come a year hence when those canes are reaped. The ratio of tonnes cane/hectare will tell us whether the canes were planted in the correct density and whether good crop husbandry was pursued during the period.
SN, performance in any business has to be viewed against the plan or budget. You should not take any numbers trumpeted by any company as a success in isolation of the plan. And don’t let Guysuco give you their latest estimate either (i.e. their latest revision of the plan in light of current performance), they should give you the ORIGINAL BUDGET, the one that existed before a single stalk of cane was planted/reaped or sugar produced.
By the way, to address the fawning statements of Mr. Sasenaraine Singh, it is hard to see what value Mr. Gopaul brings to the board of Guysuco. Ditto for Mr. Keith Burrowes and Ms. Geeta Singh Knight.