Sugar mechanizing will have to speed up

Given the recent trend in labour, the Guyana Sugar Corporation (Guysuco) will have to move swiftly towards greater mechanization, Agriculture Minister, Robert Persaud says.

“What has happened this year and prior certainly will shape the outlook of the industry. In fact 2011 and beyond certainly would see Guysuco of a different type. Not what people thought or their impressions of what the industry has been but these developments certainly has forced changes and has advanced the creation and the establishment of a sort of a new sugar industry