Saying that the final sugar production figure for the year is bad news, Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) President Komal Chand is calling for expertise to be brought into the sugar corporation to save the industry.
The Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) had revised the sugar production target from 300,000 tonnes to 282,000 tonnes in July, but only managed to post 237,000 tonnes at the end of the last crop. Chand, during a brief telephone interview, yesterday noted that GuySuCo had nothing to use as a “scapegoat,” since weather patterns and the availability of labour have been good this year.
“It is pessimistic news that the industry has found itself in, in spite of all the promises that this year would be
