Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) disclosed on Saturday that the Albion/Port Mourant Estate surpassed its sugar production target for the week ending March 19, 2022.
The state agency disclosed that the estate exceeded its target by 7.9% for the week, while noting that this was the first weekly target surpassed for the year 2022 in the sugar sector.
As a result of this achievement, qualified employees who worked for most of the week at the Albion/Port Mourant Estate will benefit from an additional day’s pay (tax-free).
Despite the challenges posed by the intermittent rainfalls (almost 30 mm during last week), which had stalled the estate’s mechanical harvesting operations, GuySuCo was keen to note that the estate’s performance was as a result of improved cane quality, better harvesters’ attendance, and increased productivity on the fields to push past the weekly target.
It was further stated by the corporation that at the commencement of the 1st Crop, 2022, it introduced an improved Personal Performance Incentive (PPI) Scheme, which saw cane harvesters responding positively to same; hence, their improved attendance and productivity.
Guyana Standard understands that this PPI rewards each worker progressively as they improve their productivity with some workers adding more than G$15,000 to their weekly pay package.
GuySuCo also disclosed that it also implemented a similar incentive scheme for the Planters, Fertilizing crew and Chemical Weed Control workers.
“I want to thank management and workers for achieving this weekly production incentive. With this, we will have more money for our families and I would like to encourage all workers to come out and let us achieve more weekly targets in the future at Albion Estate,” shared Omadat Seecharan, a cane harvester, attached to the 15B Gang at Albion/Port Mourant Estate.
Weekly Production Incentive (WPI) is one of several initiatives GuySuCo has in place to boost employees’ productivity and was implemented on May 13, 1989. The payment of a WPI is based on the individual estate’s achievement of 100 percent or more of its weekly sugar production target.
Once the targets are achieved, employees on the estate receive one additional day’s pay. If the estate’s achievement is 130 percent or more of its target, then employees receive two days’ pay.
