Uitvlugt ready to take Wales cane by second crop- GuySuCo

May 24, 2017 News

The Guyana Sugar Corporation Inc. (GuySuCo) has announced major headway in its plans to move production from Wales to Uitvlugt, West Coast Demerara.

Uitvlugt factory, West Coast Demerara.

The century-old Wales sugar estate was closed in December by the administration, which had vowed to revamp the loss-making company, saying it was highly inefficient.
Some workers were shifted to Uitvlugt while others were made redundant. GuySuCo had announced plans to reconfigure a number of routes to move canes from the Wales estate to Uitvlugt.
According to the state-owned corporation yesterday, as part of the Uitvlugt Estate Improvement Programme (UIP), its Board of Directors has approved a programme where interested cane farmers with the requisite capacity can be leased lands at Uitvlugt estate.
A significant percentage of the canes that were milled at Wales factory are closer to Uitvlugt Estate and will now be transported to and milled there.
“Cane farmers who were further away from Uitvlugt estate, who found it uneconomical to transport their canes to Uitvlugt Factory were encouraged to apply to lease lands at Uitvlugt Estate.”
According to GuySuCo, the factory at the Uitvlugt Estate is configured differently from Wales, hence modifications are currently being done to enable the factory to accommodate farmers’ canes delivered in trailers.
“Prior to the closure of Wales factory, cane farmers transported their canes to Wales Estate by punts and also by road in tractor/trailer units, both of which were unloaded by a cane gantry. On the other hand, Uitvlugt factory, as presently configured, can only unload punts and uses a punt dumper for this task.
The modifications at Uitvlugt include the relocation of the cane gantry, cane scale, feeder table and auxiliary carrier from Wales Factory to Uitvlugt.
GuySuCo disclosed that this would be completed in time for the commencement of the second Crop, 2017 at Uitvlugt.
A temporary trailer parking area and wooden bridge across the irrigation canal carrying water from the Boerasiri conservancy is also in progress for completion by the start of the second crop – a permanent trailer park, concrete bridge over the irrigation canal, upgrade of dams (including Pumpkin Dam) to all-weather roads and other infrastructural works will follow in due course.
“The relocation of the Gantry, Cane Scale, Feeder Table and Auxiliary Carrier is contracted to Nabi Construction Inc. whilst the Uitvlugt Estate is undertaking works on the temporary bridge and trailer park.”

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