THE Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) announced that the Blairmont Estate had leveraged the good weather conditions over the last seven days to surpass its weekly sugar production target, ending March 25, 2023, by 12 per cent.

According to GuySuCo, this is the second time for the first crop this year that this Estate has surpassed its weekly target.

This good news, GuySuCo noted, 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.

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 was the cane quality, with extraction of 92.4 percent, versus 91.1 percent 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.

GuySuCo stated that qualified workers who worked 80 per cent or more days available for that week would 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, March 25, 2023.

“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,” GuySuCo noted in a statement Saturday.