Preferential loans can be used to buy machinery and equipment to reduce post-harvest losses including dryers, machines used for the cultivation and harvest of rice, coffee tea and sugarcane, and machines used for aquatic production and cold storage. The machines have to be new, legally standard and have a local content value of at least 60%. The loans could be up to 100% of the cost. The state subsidises 100% of the interest rates for these loans in the first two years and 50% from the third year onwards.