The Guyana Sugar Corporation’s (GuySuCo) Uitvlugt Estate has suffered breakdowns amounting to some 204 hours for its first crop.
According to a Guyana Agricultural and General Workers’ Union (GAWU) release yesterday, Uitvlugt Estate, which is now in the fifth week of its seven-week first crop as at Friday, March 13, suffered breakdowns aggregating to some 204 hours for the first crop. The union explained that the hours lost because of breakdowns is equivalent to more than a week and a half of operations.
GAWU disclosed that Uitvlugt’s sugar production as of last weekend stood at 3,559 tonnes and according to the Corporation’s crop schedule, Uitvlugt, at that point in time, ought to have produced 4,837 tonnes sugar. The union opined that “the estate [Uitvlugt], in all likelihood, will not realise its targeted production in the scheduled crop weeks.”