{"id":261884,"date":"2025-12-19T12:06:01","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T04:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wonderful-indigo-elk.62-72-47-242.cpanel.site\/dti-davao-facilitates-php243-million-loans-for-msmes-in-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T12:06:01","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T04:06:01","slug":"dti-davao-facilitates-php243-million-loans-for-msmes-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/?p=261884","title":{"rendered":"DTI-Davao Facilitates PHP243 Million Loans For MSMEs In 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Trade and Industry in Davao Region helped secure PHP243.64 million in loans for micro, small and medium enterprises this year, an official said Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>DTI-11 Regional Director Romeo Casta\u00f1aga said 706 MSMEs, primarily through the Small Business Corp.&#8217;s RISE UP Program, availed of the loans for capital and expansion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAside from market and technology, they really need the loan for their capital. We provide the facilitation with the appropriate financing window,\u201d Casta\u00f1aga said in a press briefing.<\/p>\n<p>He added that 34% of the loans ranged from PHP100,000 to PHP500,000.<\/p>\n<p>Officials also reported assisting 53,907 clients in 2025, with 33,217 being MSMEs.<\/p>\n<p>About 87% of those assisted MSMEs are now classified as growing enterprises.<\/p>\n<p>The agency conducted 686 training sessions benefiting 20,479 participants and graduated 992 entrepreneurs from its mentorship program since 2016. Region 11 also recorded 43,853 business name registrations this year. (PNA)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most assisted clients came from the MSME sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":73,"featured_media":261885,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19565],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-261884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business-today"],"zyndk8_nxtgen_metadata":{"nxtgen_comments":[{"6542":"davao entrepreneurs leveling up \ud83d\ude04\r","6543":"dti davao \ud83d\udc4d\r"}]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/73"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=261884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/261885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=261884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=261884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uptownmanila.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=261884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}