The Guyana Sugar Corporation Inc. (GuySuCo) yesterday said that its first crop for 2020 which ended in June achieved a total of 37,015 tonnes of sugar.
This, it said in a statement is equivalent to 79.6 percent of the budgeted target of 46,476 tonnes of sugar; the shortfall being 9,461. It added that the crop was closed with 1,093 Hectares (762 Hectares at Albion/Port Mourant Estate and 331 Hectares at Blairmont Estate) of carry over canes to be harvested. This is equivalent to 66,000 tonnes of cane that will be carried over to the Second Crop of 2020.
It said that the actual sugar cane processed for the First Crop is 492,910, compared to the budgeted 539,460. The budgeted molasses was 19,624 while the actual output was 21,194; a surplus of 1,569. Tonnes Cane per tonnes sugar was budgeted at 11.61 and the actual was 12.99, GuySuCo said.
