bandin as abandon when the fields were flooded.
Seignet, so what would be your main advice to improve efficiency in sugar production?
If I was entrusted with the task of revitalizing GUYSUCO, the thing to tackle is corruption. I know for a fact the Material Control Department favors oversea purchasing involved in millions of US$. Most of it inflated prices by Guyanese to Guyanese purchasing agents with the MCD.
Sugar theft, even at small scale can be surmountable if enough people are doing it. Security under Bookers was a very important feature in its operations.
People on the payroll who doan work for it. Find them and clarify their duties. Kick backs have always been a feature in the sugar industry among foremen and field drivers.
After an attempt to tackle the corruption.
Move on to production. Simply, standardize the equipment. Refurbish. We were once very good at it-Bookers Trained Technicians. Examine every tank, pumps and any possible equipment that can spill or dump cane juice into the water ways. Alot of water is used in the production of sugar and juices and molasses easily drains into the ducts. STOP ALL SPILLAGE.
Labs are important-to maximize the quality of sugar grains, the process is monitored from the onset of natural and mixed juices, the filter presses, the clarifiers, the crytalizers, the Pans and the Centrifuges.
Guysuco drifted into a carefree attitude. Sugar production is a science. The PNC years destroyed the morale of the industry.
After the production level has been made lean, then the methods of enhancing quality cane(this could be done in conjunction with factory improvements), harvesting and transportation must be tackled.
To revitalize GUYSUCO is ahuge undertaking-every sugar factory is lacking one way or the other.