Federal Act
on Agriculture
(Agriculture Act, AgricA)

¹ In­vest­ment loans are gran­ted in par­tic­u­lar for:

a.

land im­prove­ments;

b.¹⁵⁹

build­ings, in­stall­a­tions and ma­chinery erec­ted or pur­chased by farm­ers for joint self-help pro­jects in or­der to ra­tion­al­ise their op­er­a­tions, to fa­cil­it­ate the pre­par­a­tion, stor­age and mar­ket­ing of loc­al pro­duce or to pro­duce en­ergy from bio­mass;

c.¹⁶⁰

set­ting up ag­ri­cul­tur­al self-help or­gan­isa­tions for mar­ket-ori­ent­ated pro­duc­tion and man­age­ment;

d.¹⁶¹

re­gion­al de­vel­op­ment pro­jects and pro­jects aimed at pro­mot­ing loc­al and re­gion­al products in which ag­ri­cul­ture plays a ma­jor role.

² In the case of lar­ger pro­jects, sup­port may be gran­ted in the form of build­ing loans.¹⁶²

³ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil may stip­u­late re­quire­ments and ob­lig­a­tions.