Acres of cane under the Guyana Sugar Corporation’s (GuySuCo) field research programme at LBI were recently cleared for housing development.
Fifty hectares of lands at Blairmont, West Coast Berbice, are now being developed to accommodate the varietal field research programme as the lands from which they were removed are no longer owned by the corporation. The move has set back sugar development research for at least a year.
Responding to queries from this newspaper about the programme coming to an end at La Bonne Intention (LBI), GuySuCo Chief Executive Officer Sasenarine Singh said the relocation is a part of GuySuCo’s consolidating and transitional plans.