Most of sugar subvention for mechanisation – Ramotar

Donald Ramotar

President Donald Ramotar says that the majority of the $6.6 billion allocated to the Guyana Sugar Corporation in the 2014 budget will go directly into mechanization.

Speaking at a press conference on Thursday at the Office of the President, he stated that the money budgeted for GuySuCo will have to be spent on changing the physical layout of the fields, preparing for further machine-friendly harvesting. He noted that the fact of the declining labour force could not be denied.

Ramotar stated that “all over the industry, I don’t think there is any one of the estates where