Another 5,000 hectares of land will be used for sugar production at the Skeldon Estate in Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne), President Irfaan Ali announced yesterday.
The Head of State made this disclosure while delivering his feature address at the commissioning ceremony of Republic Bank’s new Williamsburg branch on the Corentyne.
The President said that production at these lands will be mechanised and the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) has already sourced new varieties of sugarcane to be planted there.
Stabroek News on August 20, 2023, had reported that Minister of Agriculture, Zulfikar Mustapha, had given the assurance that the problematic Skeldon Estate will be reopened with the idea of sugar production being done on a smaller scale.
In its manifesto for the 2020 general elections. The PPP/C vowed to reopen three of the four estates shuttered by the APNU+AFC government – East Demerara, Rose Hall and Skeldon. It also announced a development plan for the former Wales estate where the factory had already been dismantled.
