The sugar corporation has announced that the required amount of cane to run the US$185 million Skeldon sugar factory at top capacity will not be available until 2012.
Earlier projections from the corporation had indicated that a sufficient supply would be ready by 2011, and only recently there was talk of a bumper crop next year.
But in a press release yesterday, the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) said the required supply of canes from both private farmers and the state-owned sugar estate to feed the troubled Chinese-built factory was not