Since the beginning of 2024, 4,516 entrepreneurs have received loans under the “Affordable Loans” program for a total amount of UAH 18 billion. Last week, 643 entrepreneurs received such loans for 2.4 billion hryvnia. Since the beginning of the program (February 2020), 83.5 thousand loans worth UAH 285.1 billion have been issued. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Economy.
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Since the beginning of 2024, entrepreneurs have taken more available loans to replenish working capital – by UAH 8.7 billion. Banks issued UAH 3.7 billion of loans under the program to processing enterprises, UAH 3.2 billion to businesses operating in a high military risk zone, and UAH 2.8 billion for the implementation of investment projects.
Most often loans are issued under program, enterprises operating in the following areas:
· agriculture (48%);
· wholesale and retail trade (25%);
· processing industry ( 17%).
Among the regions, the leaders in terms of the amount of concluded loan agreements are Lviv, Dnepropetrovsk, Odessa, Kiev, Kharkov, Vinnitsa, Poltava regions and the city of Kiev.
As of today, participation 45 banks accept the program; the largest number of loans since the beginning of the program were issued by Privatbank (38.1 thousand), Oschadbank (12.8 thousand) and Raiffeisen Bank Aval (5.4 thousand). .