Debunking a claim by an APNU MP that sugar had not been produced at the recently-reopened Rose Hall estate, the Agriculture Ministry on Friday said that around 100 tonnes had been churned out between September 24 and Septembers 28
APNU’s Member of Parliament Vinceroy Jordan last week challenged the Minister of Agriculture, Zulfikar Mustapha, and GuySuCo to release the production amount and cost so far for the Rose Hall Estate which officially returned to grinding last Sunday as he claimed that sugar was not produced at the location since its reopening.
According to Jordan, “The Minister of Agriculture reported during the consideration of the last financial paper in the National Assembly that Rose Hall Estate would be back in operation by the end of September 2023 with him stating further that he is optimistic that GuySuCo would produce some 60,000 metric tons of sugar by the end of the final crop in 2023 of which we await the reality.”
