Local dairy and fruit farmers in Kazakhstan are expected to secure long-term supply contracts from the country’s leading beverage company as it expands production facilities and improves its delivery system through financial assistance from ADB.

ADB is providing $85 million for the construction of three solar power plants in central Thailand, under a public-private partnership program, that will generate 57 megawatts in contracted capacity.

More public buses with lower greenhouse gas emissions will soon be deployed on the roads of major cities in the People’s Republic of China as ADB helps bus operators shift their fleets to cleaner fuel.

ADB is creating a Supply Chain Finance Program that will bring over $1 billion to help cash-strapped small and medium-sized enterprises in Asia and the Pacific access capital that can help them grow.

Agricultural products moving through the northeastern port area of Tianjin will soon have an expanded shelf life and lower spoilage rates with ADB providing its first-ever logistics-related loan to establish a large capacity cold chain facility.

Sri Lankans living in post-conflict and tsunami-hit areas will soon have better access to badly needed housing loans, after ADB approved a $15 million loan to DFCC Vardhana Bank to relend exclusively for home purchase or rehabilitation.

ADB has participated in its first shari’ah-compliant project financing, providing assistance to two projects to build wind farms close to the port city of Karachi, Pakistan using two partial credit guarantees worth up to $66 million to the Islamic Development Bank.