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NADRA BANK, USAID AGREE ON LOANS TO FARMERS
AND AG PRODUCTION SUPPLIERS IN UKRAINE
  

Eastern Economist Daily, Kyiv, Ukraine
Monday, September 30, 2002

 

KYIV..............Nadra bank and USAID signed an agreement through the five-year Development Credit Authority program for giving loans to farmers and suppliers of material and technical resources for ag production. The agreement was signed for U.S. $6 mn. The US government guaranteed compensation of 50% of the risks for the loans.

Nadra Chair Ihor Hylenko said the bank would be able to give 720 loans to farmers nationwide. He added the maximum loan could not exceed US $60,000.

U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Carlos Pascual said the agree- ment signified Ukraine had undergone basic changes. He added farmers had become entrepreneurs and the banking sector realized small enterprises were the moving force of the economy.

(I. Antypenko, Sept. 27)


USAID is the United States Agency for International Development


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