The Guyana Sugar Cor-poration says it is moving full speed ahead with converting fields for mechanised planting at the Albion Estate as it works towards profitability.
GuySuCo yesterday invited the media on a tour of the Albion backlands where abandoned cane fields which were once heavily forested are being converted to beds and replanted using mechanisation.
Andre Paul, Group Agri-culture Engineer, yesterday explained that mechanisation is aimed at reducing operating costs in the long term.
Pointing to the fields that are currently being converted at the Albion Estate, Paul explained initially the fields were narrow Dutch beds running two – three rods in width with the beds running from one cross canal to another. According to him, that was a “short run” with a centre drain at the middle referred to as a four foot in the sugar industry.
