GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC – Guyana has recorded a seven p.c enhance in rice manufacturing this 12 months in comparison with 2022, incomes practically GUY$50 billion (One Guyana greenback=US$0.004 cents).
The nation additionally recorded a major enhance of 28 p.c or 13,155 metric tonnes in sugar manufacturing in comparison with 47,049 in 2022.
“In 2023, we noticed a seven p.c enhance in paddy manufacturing, which interprets to the manufacturing of 653,706 metric tons. That could be a 43,111 metric tons enhance within the manufacturing in 2023 in comparison with 2022 manufacturing of 610,595,” stated Agriculture Minister Zulfikar Mustapha.
He stated one of many vital achievements for sugar is the reopening of the Rose Corridor Sugar Property in September 2023.
“Sugar manufacturing in 2023 closed at 60 204 metric tonnes, a 28 p.c or 13,155 metric tonnes enhance in comparison with 47,049 metric tonnes in 2022. The trade replanted 52 p.c extra land in 2023, a complete of 4,020 hectares, in comparison with 2,640 hectares in 2022.
“We will likely be seeing much less and fewer dependency from the federal government by way of the Guyana Sugar Company (GuySuCo) revitalizing and bringing again GuySuCo at that time that we would like it to realize. We’ve seen a 22 p.c lower of funding that we requested from the federal government in 2023 in comparison with 2022.”
Guyana has additionally registered 54 p.c of sugar manufacturing, marketed as packaged sugar, in 2023, in comparison with 48 p.c in 2022.
“We’ve launched two new value-added packaged manufacturers. One is the Albion Gem, and the opposite is the Demerara Gold Sugar Stick Sachet,” stated Mustapha, telling reporters that the federal government has employed 4,692 new staff within the sugar trade.
The whole variety of staff in GuySuCo on the finish of 2023 is 8,294 individuals.
Over the subsequent two years, Mustapha stated that the federal government would convert over 5,000 hectares of land to have mechanization in harvesting and mechanical loading.
“We’re seeing a revitalization of the sugar trade, and we’re seeing increasingly individuals benefitting.”
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