<p>Vietnam State Bank has just replied in act as a respond to the official letter 120/UBND-KT dated January 11th, 2013 by the PPC on removing difficulties for enterprises producing and trading cashew nuts in Phu Yen. Accordingly, enterprises meeting the conditions but not yet making bank loans need to have acts to report to the State Bank for consideration and treatment.</p> <p>In the past years, one of the main forced sectors in Phu Yen is producing cashew nuts for export. Annually, these enterprises solve 100,000 laborers, particularly those in rural areas, contributing to increasing income, improving livelihood. However, due to the negative impacts from the world economic depression, bank interests are still high, consumed markets are narrowed, prices are drastically decreased, stocked commodities are large…, which all make the province’s cashew nut enterprises meet with numerous difficulties. Despite the fact that the province has resorted to lots of solutions so as to remove difficulties, fulfill the privileged policies for these enterprises as to the Advocacy of the Government, difficulties are still a lot for these enterprises.</p> <p>According to the PPC, the difficulty removal is not only an issue of the enterprises’ alone but more significantly, to ensure social security and particularly solving employment for rural laborers. Therefore, to help Phu Yen cashew nut producing enterprises at the current time, the PPC suggests the Government care and direct how to remove difficulties for the cashew nut sector, among which concentration is made on supporting the purchase of material, lengthen the tax summiting, supporting with trade promotion,…Particularly, the PPC proposes the Government to consider the situations of enterprises producing and exporting cashew nuts to enjoy similar privileged credit policies to catfish in the Mekong Delta, help the enterprises to have conditions to recover, develop production, trading. The PPC also suggests the State Bank to care about giving directions to commercial banks’ branches to consider mortgage, reducing interest rates, extending debts, giving new debts; simultaneously doing research into increasing credits, not preventing finance flow…to support the cashew nut producing enterprises in Phu Yen to get access to the new capital sources, restore production and trade, get capital to pay workers, bank debts, contribute to job solving and social security in the province.</p> <p>As to the response from the State bank, to remove difficulties, support production and trade, in the past time, the State Bank has directed the credit organizations to concentrate on ensuring the capital sources for loans for the privileged sectors including rural agriculture, small and medium enterprises, enterprises producing exported commodities, trading in cashew nuts. On the other hand, in 2012, the State Bank adjusted interest rates for 5 consecutive times to mobilize to the most as a foundation for credit institutions to reduce loan interest rates and stipulating floor interest rates for serving rural agriculture at 12%/year ( a reduction of 5% to 8% against the year 2011). Besides, the State Bank requested the credit institutions to double check the assessment to restructure, adjust deadline for debt payment applied for the customers having solutions to feasible trading, with competence to pay debts so that the enterprises can have conditions to restructure the production.</p>