Federal Act
on Agriculture
(Agriculture Act, AgricA)

¹ The ag­ri­cul­tur­al re­search sta­tions have as­signed the fol­low­ing tasks in par­tic­u­lar:¹⁶⁷

a.

to pro­cess sci­entif­ic find­ings and the tech­nic­al prin­ciples for ag­ri­cul­tur­al prac­tice, edu­ca­tion and ad­vis­ory ser­vices;

b.

to draw up sci­entif­ic prin­ciples for ag­ri­cul­tur­al de­cision-mak­ing;

c.

to de­vel­op, su­per­vise and as­sess ag­ri­cul­tur­al meas­ures;

d.

to draw up ba­sic prin­ciples for new strategies in ag­ri­cul­ture;

e.

to draw up ba­sic prin­ciples for en­vir­on­ment­ally and an­im­al-friendly types of pro­duc­tion;

f.

to carry out im­ple­ment­a­tion du­ties.

² …¹⁶⁸