Blairmont Estate surpasses weekly production target for 2nd consecutive week

The Blairmont Sugar Estate has leveraged the good weather conditions over the last seven days to surpass its weekly sugar production target by 12 per cent.
This was announced by the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) on Saturday. This is the second continuous week that the estate has been able to surpass targets.
“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 estate shared.
Estate Manager Threbhowan Shiwprasad said the achievement was possible due to the factory time efficiency of 95.5 per cent, against a budget of 93.0 per cent, and minimal downtime of 5.25 hours for the week.
Also contributing to this achievement is the cane quality, with Pol extraction of 92.4 per cent, versus 91.1 per cent budgeted, resulting in an improved Tonnes Cane to Tonnes Sugar (Tc/Ts) ratio of 11.53 per cent versus the budgeted 13.04 per cent.
Qualified workers who worked 80 per cent 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 MT of sugar, and 50 per cent of that target was surpassed on Saturday.
“The Executive Management congratulates the management and workers of Blairmont Estate and urges all grinding estates to strive towards achieving the weekly production incentive. The Executive Management also implores workers to remain focused and committed to consistently achieving their weekly targets, as every effort is being made to harness better weather during March 2023 compared to the same period in 2022,” the statement zeroed in.
GuySuCo was allocated $4 billion in the 2023 budget to begin construction of the Albion sugar packaging plant and to expand the capacity of the Blairmont packaging plant among other significant undertakings, which will increase the value-added capacity of the sugar company. The People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) Administration has invested more than $10 billion in the plant and equipment, rehabilitated cane fields at all factory locations, and fostered private-sector partnerships to increase land under cultivation in the sugar industry.