Federal Act
on Agriculture
(Agriculture Act, AgricA)

¹ Sub­sidies for en­sur­ing sup­plies are paid to main­tain re­li­able food sup­plies for the pop­u­la­tion. These sub­sidies in­clude:

a.

a ba­sic pay­ment per hec­tare to main­tain pro­duc­tion ca­pa­city;

b.

a pay­ment per hec­tare to en­sure an ad­equate pro­por­tion of open farm­land with long-term crop­ping;

c.

a gradu­ated pay­ment per hec­tare for de­gree of dif­fi­culty in up­land and moun­tain areas to main­tain pro­duc­tion ca­pa­city un­der cli­mat­ic dif­fi­culties.

² In the case of graz­ing land, sub­sidies are only paid if the farm has a min­im­um num­ber of cattle. The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall stip­u­late min­im­um live­stock num­bers. It may de­cide that no min­im­um is ne­ces­sary for cul­tiv­ated mead­ows and areas of land re­served for pro­mot­ing biod­iversity, and set a lower ba­sic pay­ment for the lat­ter.

³ Sub­sidies for en­sur­ing sup­ply may also be paid for land in oth­er coun­tries along the Swiss bor­der un­der the terms of Art­icle 43 para­graph a of the Cus­toms Tar­iff Act of 18 March 2005¹⁰³.