With the second crop underway and a daunting 192,000 tonnes of sugar still needed to make the 2013 target of 240,000 tonnes, the Guyana Sugar Corporation is soliciting private cane farmers in the outsourcing of 800 hectares of land at Uitvlugt Estate.
GuySuCo will be hosting an “open house” of sorts on July 18; the company is asking for private cane farmers to then express their interest in writing by August 2. The land that is currently not being used “has been out of cultivation in excess of two years,” according to an advertisement in yesterday’s Sunday Chronicle by the state owned company. GuySuCo said that the move was being made in a bid to maximize the capacity of the Uitvlugt factory and to increase production.
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