By Pushpa Balgobin
The Guyana Sugar Corpora-tion will officially record its lowest first crop ever this year but Chief Executive Officer Paul Bhim is hopeful that the deficit can be reduced in the second crop and he assured that the key European quota will be met.
GuySuCo has produced “a hundred tonnes shy of the 48,000 tonnes if you want to be completely accurate in this first crop of the year,” Bhim told Stabroek News yesterday. He further noted that the first crop production was “dismal” and that such low production was “obviously a letdown” but the company could only make changes to the second crop in the hopes of making up the deficit.
Bhim said “yeah as far as I am aware this is the lowest production that we’ve ever had as far as the records go”. Last year’s first crop was 67,299 tonnes. He said that while production was significantly less than the 70,000 first crop target Guyana will not need to import sugar and the