Guyana’s President Dr Irfaan Ali says another 5,000 hectares of land will be used for sugar production at the Skeldon Estate in the east, to boost sugar production,
President Ali announced 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.
He believes this will allow GuySuCo to meet its 2024 production target at the estate this year and “achieve higher levels of production” next year.
The former APNU+AFC government closed estates at Skeldon and Rose Hall in Berbice, Enmore on the East Coast of Demerara and Wales on the West Bank of Demerara shortly after it was elected to office in 2015.
The People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) government said it would be pursuing a phased reopening of the Skeldon Sugar Estate as part of a wider plan to revitalise the sugar industry.
The Rose Hall Estate, also in Berbice, was reopened last October.
