Since the beginning of the year, 6,400 entrepreneurs have received loans under the “Affordable Loans” program for a total amount of UAH 25.3 billion. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Economy.
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In particular, last year During the week, businesses received 606 available loans in the amount of UAH 2.5 billion. In general, since the beginning of the program (February 2020), 85.4 thousand loans worth UAH 292.2 billion have been issued.
It is noted that since the beginning of 2024, entrepreneurs have taken the largest number of available loans to replenish working capital funds – for 10.1 billion UAH, 5.2 billion UAH of loans – for businesses operating in a high military risk zone, 4.3 billion UAH of loans under the program were issued by banks to processing enterprises, 4.6 billion UAH – for the implementation of investment projects.< /p>
Most often credited under the program are enterprises operating in the areas of agriculture (48%), wholesale and retail trade (25%) and processing industry (17%).
Among the regions, the leaders in The amounts of concluded loan agreements are Lviv, Dnepropetrovsk, Odessa, Kiev, Kharkov, Vinnitsa, Poltava regions and Kyiv.
Today, 45 banks are participating in the program.