The committee said that loans for 6.991 trillion soums (96.6%) were issued in national currency and 244.3 billion soums (3.4%) – in hard currency.

The volume of allocated loans to small businesses grew by 32.3% or 1.764 trillion soums in 2012 compared to 2011.

Some 5.21 trillion soums (72% of total issued loans) were issued due to own resources of the commercial banks, 1.834 trillion soums (25.3%) – due to resource of Fund on payments for agriculture products, purchased for state needs, 186.8 billion soums (2.6%) – credit lines of international financial institutions, and 4.8 billion soums (0.1%) – due to off-budget funds.

The committee said that 57.4% of loans (4.154 trillion soums) were long-term credits and 42.6% (3.081 trillion soums) were short-term credits.

Small enterprises and macrofirms received loans for 4.343 trillion soums (60% of total allocated loans), dehkan and farms – 2.103 trillion soums (29.1%), individual businesses – 719.5 billion soums (5.5%), private auxiliary entities – 69.7 billion soums (1%).

At the same time, the largest volume of loans, allocated to small businesses in Tashkent, made up 1.721 trillion soums (23.8% of total volume of issued loans), Tashkent region – 708.1 billion soums (9.8%) and Samarkand region – 621.4 billion soums (8.6%).

The volume of issued loans by regions in 2012