The Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) yesterday said that the Blair-mont Estate has utilised the good weather conditions over the last seven days to surpass its weekly sugar production target, ending March 25, 2023, by 12%.
In a release, GuySuCo said that this is the second time for the first crop this year that this Estate has surpassed its weekly target.
“This good news will boost the income from the members of the sugar fraternity on the West Coast of Berbice as all the workers at that Estate secured additional remuneration with the weekly performance incentive”, the sugar corporation said.
GuySuCo has come under pressure over low production despite the billions in annual subventions it has been receiving since the PPP/C resumed office in August of 2020.
Estate Manager Threbhowan Shiwprasad said the achievement was possible due to the factory time efficiency of 95.5 percent, against a budget of 93.0 percent, and minimal downtime of 5.25 hours for the week. Also contributing to the output is the cane quality, with Pol extraction of 92.4 percent, versus 91.1 percent budgeted, resulting in an improved Tonnes Cane to Tonnes Sugar (Tc/Ts) ratio of 11.53 percent versus the budgeted 13.04 percent.
Qualified workers who worked 80 percent or more days available for that week will benefit from another weekly production incentive scheme, which allows tax-free incentives when an estate achieves its weekly production target.
The first crop production target is 16,875 metric tonnes of sugar, and 50% of that target was surpassed on Saturday, March 25, 2023.
