BAKU, Azerbaijan, April 3. Azerbaijan Entrepreneurship Development Fund, one of the main goals of which is to stimulate local production and business, has allocated a loan to a Polimer Net Az Company LLC, Trend reports via the tweet of Azerbaijan's Minister of Economy Mikayil Jabbarov.
"The Entrepreneurship Development Fund has provided 200,000 manat ($117,650) in concessional loan to the Polimer Net Az Company LLC, resident of Balakhani Industrial Park, for the project on the manufacturing of polymer products," said the tweet.
In total, the Fund has financed 2,726 investment projects in 2022. In this regard, the Fund issued easy-term loans worth 145.9 million manat ($85.7 million).
Out of the overall loans, 87.1 million manat ($51.16 million) were issued to agricultural output, 37.3 million manat ($21.9 million) – the industrial production and processing, 9.1 million manat ($5.3 million) – tourism, and 12.4 million manat ($7.28 million) – other industries.
The top 5 financial institutions by the number of concessional loans issued are as follows: Bank Respublika - 746 concessional loans, Yelo Bank - 350, Unibank - 318, Rabitabank - 282, and "Aqrarkredit" NBCO - 282.
