{"id":31512,"date":"2026-08-20T22:14:51","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T02:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=31512"},"modified":"2026-08-20T22:18:36","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T02:18:36","slug":"sugar-industry-can-meet-revised-project-target-gawu-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/sugar-industry-can-meet-revised-project-target-gawu-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Sugar industry can meet revised project target &#8211; GAWU President"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">-by Celestine Chacon<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President of the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers\u2019 Union, Seepaul Narine, is optimistic that&nbsp;Guysuco&nbsp;can meet its revised sugar production target of more than 51,000 tonnes for 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He made this disclosure during an exclusive interview with NCN news. <br>GuySuCo had initially set a target of 100,000 tonnes, but excessive rainfall forced a downward revision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u201cEarly in the year we had\u00a0some excessive rain and as a result you had some damage to cultivation mainly at Albion and then you had some factory problems, when they relook at it and take everything into consideration they reduced the target to 51,400<\/strong>,\u201d he explained. <br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite the setback, Narine says the revised target remains realistic and achievable, noting that first-crop production was 19 percent higher than the corresponding period last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, he identified the expected prolonged dry season as a major risk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBased on the canes on the ground, I\u2019m very optimistic that we could achieve the target. The only thing I\u2019m seeing as a danger ahead is the long dry season, and this could affect your water levels. If your canes don\u2019t have water, then they could be stunted in growth,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Narine explained that production for the second crop has started positively, with Rose Hall Estate commencing operations and meeting its weekly production target, resulting in workers receiving&nbsp;a day\u2019s pay as incentive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The&nbsp;Albion and Rose Hall&nbsp;estates&nbsp;are&nbsp;expected to&nbsp;produce&nbsp;a combined&nbsp;32,238 tonnes, while Blairmont is expected to produce 10,224 tonnes and Uitvlugt 8,908 tonnes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>-by Celestine Chacon President of the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers\u2019 Union, Seepaul Narine, is optimistic that&nbsp;Guysuco&nbsp;can meet its revised sugar production target of more than 51,000 tonnes for 2026.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31521,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[468,361,536,350],"tags":[488,1092,370,412,405,575],"class_list":["post-31512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-agriculture","category-business-and-economy","category-finance","category-news","tag-488","tag-gawu","tag-guyana","tag-ncn-guyana","tag-ncn-news","tag-sugar"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31512","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31512"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31513,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31512\/revisions\/31513"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}