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Truth being hidden about poor sugar production – AFC Leader

Dec 07, 2012 News

 

The truth surrounding the poor level of production at Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) is being skillfully withheld by Government to cover the poor management of the failing institution says, Khemraj Ramjattan, Leader of the Alliance For Change.
Ramjattan made the statement in light of Agriculture Minister, Dr. Leslie Ramsammy recently blaming intermittent rainfall on the coastland for the halting of production at GuySuCo. The state-owned sugar company, which has a revised target of 236,000 tonnes of sugar for 2012, up to Friday last, had produced 208,000 tonnes of sugar.
Dr. Ramsammy had noted that the current rainy weather has adversely affected the sugar industry and the grinding of cane has slowed. He added that the last two weeks in November, very little grinding is being done at estates because of the weather.
According to Ramjattan, “Dr. Ramsammy is a doctor that has a plaster for every political and administrative sore. His statements are just to cover-up the sore rather than to heal the sore”.
The AFC Member of Parliament said that all of the problems GuySuCo is encountering are management related and “have nothing to do with God or climate change”. He assured that this claim is substantiated by information provided by employees in the factories and fields.
“Apparently, the struggle between management and workers, shortage of workers, a host of bad husbandry practices and the departure of a number of qualified persons has affected GuySuCo.”
In relation to the rainy weather disrupting the harvesting and burning of canes, Ramjattan said that bad husbandry practices are the primary factor. He noted that had the fields been properly prepared this second crop would not have encountered the rains.
Another issue Dr. Ramsammy commented on that irked Ramjattan was that it was better to de-silt during the wet season than in the dry. According to the AFC Leader “this does not make engineering sense or common sense”. He opined that in the wet season it would be difficult to excavate the area thoroughly while in the dry season the silt would hold firmly in the bucket and the operator will ascertain how much silt has to be extracted.

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