A reply to Mr. Raymond Sangster

Dec 15, 2013 Letters

Dear Editor,
This letter is in response to Mr. Raymond Sangster (General Manager Agriculture Services published in Kaieteur News (page 4 and 23 ) on the 07-12-2013 captioned “Mr. Vieira’s letter is riddled with inaccuracies.”
Mr. Raymond Sangster, you should be ashamed to reply to Mr. Vieira’s letter.
Mr. Vieira is a reputable and an outstanding person in the Agriculture Sector and in the business community. Mr. Vieira has owned and managed a sugar plantation.
Your reply to Mr. Vieira’s letter clearly indicates to the general public that you are not willing to learn and adapt yourself to changes. Instead, you are prepared to make everybody a failure under your watch as the GM Agri. services
Mr. Sangster, you betrayed the trust that Guysuco placed in you as the General Manager Agri. Services. You have been entrusted with the responsibilities to ensure that Guysuco turnaround plan works and makes the industry more viable. Your roles and responsibilities are to ensure that work standards be maintained and make recommendation for improvement, rather than attacking Mr. Vieira.
Under your watch, Guysuco achieved a very poor TC/HA of 43 in 2012 second crop and approximately 49 TC/HA in the second crop 2013, the lowest yields ever in the 100 plus years Guysuco has been in existence. In any other part of the world the General Manager Agri. Service would have resigned or be dismissed.
Mr. Vieira said that conversion is the cause for low yield and he is absolutely correct. They are various reasons:-
1. Have you ever done a quality control on a converted harvested field to determine how much millable cane with the highest sucrose is left in the field and how much cane juice is extracted in the fields (juice is meant for the factory). Have you ever thought about implementing proper harvesting standards.
2. Have you ever thought of machine movement on a harvested bed? Mr. Sangster please examine that, a harvesting bed has become like a play field, whereby movement is 10 time the amount required of such a great amount of compaction is achieved.
3. Mr. Sangster, have you ever examined Mr. Steve Hall’s mechanical layout fields in regard to the machine movements or are you just prepared to condemn him as you did to Mr. Vieira.
Mr. Sangster, there are plenty other major reasons pertaining to low yields. You mention that your major factor for low yield is weather. Well, if this is so, then Mr. Vieira rightly said you need to increase your fleet of harvesters and make use to the opportunity time.
Can you please explain to the General Public:-
-why Skeldon was transporting cane to Albion since October, 2013.
– why Skeldon has to carry over in excess of 70,000 tonnes of canes?
Mr. Sangster, in your response, you have fed the general public with inaccurate information regarding land preparation, where you mention long boom excavators are used to establish beds but instead blades are used. You also mention that Filter mud is applied on corner and affected row., I wonder if this operation is mechanized.
You also make mention that extra LGRP is applied to correct the acidity in affected areas. I wonder where this is done. I know for a fact soil sample is done prior to land preparation and the amount is determine by sample result, so I do not know where the word EXTRA come from and where it is applied because it is not a practice at Skeldon.
Mr. Sangster, as the General Manager Agri Services, I wish to join with you in saying that the Skeldon New Factory is malfunctioning. But let us examine the fields, which are producing at 43 & 49 TC/HA. Is that joyful or is that a factory problem too. Emphasis must be placed on the husbandry of cane to achieve 100 TC/HA as many farmers are doing. You can learn from them.
Sabita Persaud

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