World Bank financing totalled US$240m: a US$150m IDA credit and a US$90m IBRD loan. The IDA credit had a 30-year maturity and five-year grace period; the IBRD loan had a 24.5-year maturity and 4.5-year grace period.
Livestock represented about 13% of GDP, roughly 50% of agricultural GDP and 27% of agricultural employment. Uzbekistan had about 4.8m smallholder dehkan farmers. The project included veterinary and traceability systems, market infrastructure and simplified bank lending for climate-smart livestock investment.
The long tenors expanded access to capital in a sector important to rural income, but approved financing remains distinct from actual disbursement and lending to end farms.
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