Just over 35,000 tonnes of sugar produced to date

The Guyana Sugar Corporation is lagging behind with 35,400 tonnes produced up to the weekend; sugar figures which are reminiscent of 2013’s first crop, the worst in the corporation’s history at 48,000 tonnes.

GuySuCo is yet to formally announce the 2015 production target and has not confirmed the 240,000 tonnes disclosed by Minister of Agriculture Dr Leslie Ramsammy to state media. So far sources have told Stabroek News that only the first crop target of 86,201 has been circulated and that the corporation’s CEO