Many stock companies, however, predicted in their strategicreports that the growth will be about 13%. They explained that the lending interestrate is now at a high level, affecting the borrowing capacity and making productionexpansion projects less feasible.
Meanwhile, credit institutions projected credit balance ofthe entire system to increase by just 13.7% this year.
Credit growth reached approximately 13% last year, with most of credit serving production and trade./.