The Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) is moving ahead with its crop extension plans, President Irfaan Ali told workers attached to the Blairmont Estate during a recent meeting. Confirming the earlier projection of just over 5,000 hectares of cane being planted for the second crop this year, Ali revealed that in 2025, GuySuCo is looking to plant just over 20,000 hectares of land.
Ali said that achieving that first marker would allow for all factories to operate at optimal output with enough cane in the system. “And then next year it should get better because you have 5,000 hectares of land prepared,” he added.
“We are ramping up the production,” Ali said. “We are putting a lot of money in capital expenditure so that we can get all the fields ready, all the fields mechanised. We are looking at higher yielding variety canes.”