Private cane farmers supplying cane to the Wales Estate remain distressed over its planned closure and feel that the management can consider other options to keep the estate working.
The government’s announcement that the estate will be closed after the end of the second crop this year has left both the estate workers and private farmers reeling. The government and GuySuCo have said that cane for the Wales estate would be processed next year at the Uitvlugt estate on the West Coast of Demerara but the private farmers are skeptical of this. The government and GuySuCo are still to lay out measures to make this feasible.
Some of the suggestions the farmers made in a recent discussion with Stabroek News include,
