GuySuCo set to achieve 60,858 MT sugar production for 2023

– as Albion/Port Mourant Estate surpasses targets

The Guyana Sugar Corporation is on its way towards achieving a target of 60,858 metric tonnes of sugar for 2023, as the industry picks up pace amid robust strides to revive production.
It comes on the heels of Albion/Port Mourant Estate in Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne), surpassing weekly sugar production targets for the second time since the commencement of the second crop of 2023.
With Rose Hall Estate commencing grinding operations in late September 2023, this will further strengthen the industry’s production capacity.
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the sugar company, Sasenarine Singh related, “The investment of over $17 billion in the field and factory during the last three years funded by the Government of Guyana have started to show some of the expected results despite the entire project to rebuild the largest estate at Albion was constrained by the great floods of 2021.”
He further lauded efforts to overcome the flood crisis of 2021, and their efforts to plant the canes in 2022, which has culminated in the opportunity to now harvest better quality canes in 2023 and produce more sugar.
According to Singh, workers at all estates and the Demerara Sugar Terminal have made a difference in the objective of the corporation in surpassing the 60,000 MT benchmark for 2023.
This week, the Albion/Port Mourant Estate surpassed its weekly production target for the second time since the commencement of the second crop of 2023.
The estate recorded an increase in its ability to supply canes to the factory as a result of the 70 per cent turnout of harvesters this week. According to GuySuCo, workers so far have responded positively to a better cane yield in the field, an incentive scheme that is motivating greater productivity, and a stable industrial relations climate.
These factors have enabled the estate to achieve its target for the second time since grinding operations began and will boost the income of workers at Albion Estate, who have worked a minimum of eighty per cent of the days available for the week the target was achieved. This will earn them an additional day’s pay through GuySuCo’s Weekly Production Incentive (WPI) programme.

Estate Manager Yudhisthira Mana shared, “Our success is attributed to our team’s unwavering commitment and the implementation of advanced harvesting techniques. Additionally, favourable weather conditions have played a pivotal role in our accomplishments. We are immensely proud of our achievements and look forward to continuing our pursuit of excellence to achieve this crop’s target.”
The Albion/Port Mourant Estate is slated to produce 47 per cent of the expected sugar production in this second crop to meet the annual target.
Final adjustments are being made to the Rose Hall Sugar Estate, as it will be making a comeback by mid-September to recommence sugar production.
The Government’s efforts to reopen the Rose Hall Estate saw a whopping $1.1 billion being expended this year to have the facility up and running. A summary of the major works included both civil and structural interventions – including rehabilitation of the cane gantry, pre-milling, milling, boiler and process house roofing. There was also the replacement of a vacuum pan, condenser structures, a chimney, and servicing of all equipment. (Rupa Seenaraine)