Agriculture Minister Zulfikar Mustapha yesterday announced that sugar production for the year 2023 currently stands at 60,204 metric tonnes.
The minister spoke at a year-end press conference held at the Ministry of Agriculture’s Regent Street Office in Georgetown.
He said that this sugar production – 60,204 metric tonnes – reflects a 28 per cent hike which marks an additional production of 13,155 metric tonnes when compared to 47,049 metric tonnes in 2022.
Mustapha noted that this year the government invested $8.1 billion to continue the revitalisation of Guyana’s sugar industry, which reflects a decrease of 22% when compared to 2022.
