{"id":24813,"date":"2024-12-06T16:48:51","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T16:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=24813"},"modified":"2024-12-06T16:48:54","modified_gmt":"2024-12-06T16:48:54","slug":"jagdeo-comments-on-sugar-industry-setbacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/jagdeo-comments-on-sugar-industry-setbacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Jagdeo Comments on Sugar Industry Setbacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p>General Secretary of the People&#8217;s Progressive Party (PPP), Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo, has provided insight into the ongoing challenges facing the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo), following a report ordered by President Dr. Irfaan Ali. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Agriculture Minister Zulfikar Mustapha has been tasked with compiling a report on the sugar industry&#8217;s shortfalls, which will be submitted to the President.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>GuySuCo has struggled to meet its production targets this year, with the Guyana Agricultural Workers Union (GAWU) expressing concern after the corporation only achieved 39% of its expected production. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Jagdeo revealed that, according to industry management, production is expected to increase to between 60,000 and 70,000 tonnes in 2024, due to expanded cultivation efforts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite these setbacks, Dr. Jagdeo highlighted the government&#8217;s efforts to revitalize the sugar industry, including enhanced cultivation practices, importing new high-yield cane varieties from Brazil and Cuba, and the ongoing mechanization of production processes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These efforts are aimed at increasing the industry\u2019s productivity, although challenges such as aging infrastructure and management issues persist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Jagdeo emphasized that several sugar estates have been reopened since 2020, providing employment opportunities for thousands of workers across the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General Secretary of the People&#8217;s Progressive Party (PPP), Dr. Bharrat Jagdeo, has provided insight into the ongoing challenges facing the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo), following a report ordered by President&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":24802,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[350],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24813","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24813"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24813\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24814,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24813\/revisions\/24814"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}