Uitvlugt Estate workers and the business community were assured on Wednesday that the estate would achieve its target of 40,000 tonnes of cane by 2020 through its improvement programme.
Speaking at the second in a series of community meetings that the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) is conducting in sugar-dependent areas, General Manager of the estate Yudhisthira Mana said that GuySuCo is investing $1.5 billion in the Uitvlugt Estate Improvement Programme (UEIP) and would be leasing almost half of its 6,000 hectares of cultivation to private farmers who would be supplying cane to the factory.
The estate is currently cultivating 3,000 hectares, while private farmers have already been planting some 750 hectares.
