Federal Act
on Agriculture
(Agriculture Act, AgricA)

¹ Sub­sidies for the ef­fi­cient use of re­sources are paid to pro­mote the sus­tain­able use of re­sources such as soil, wa­ter and air, as well as to im­prove ef­fi­ciency with re­gard to the use of aids to pro­duc­tion.

² Sub­sidies are paid for meas­ures aimed at in­tro­du­cing re­source-sav­ing tech­niques or farm­ing meth­ods. Such sub­sidies are of a fixed dur­a­tion only.

³ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall de­cide what meas­ures are to be pro­moted. The sub­sidies are paid if:

a.

the meas­ure in ques­tion has been shown to be ef­fect­ive;

b.

the meas­ure in ques­tion shall con­tin­ue to be used once sub­sidies cease;

c.

the meas­ure in ques­tion is eco­nom­ic­ally ac­cept­able for the farm for the fore­see­able fu­ture.