Federal Act
on Agriculture
(Agriculture Act, AgricA)

¹ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil may pay sub­sidies for in­di­vidu­al crops in or­der to:

a.

main­tain the pro­duc­tion ca­pa­city and ef­fi­ciency of in­di­vidu­al pro­cessing chains to en­sure ad­equate pro­vi­sion for the pop­u­la­tion;

b.

en­sure an ad­equate sup­ply of fod­der for live­stock.

² The Fed­er­al Coun­cil de­cides on the crops and the amount of the sub­sidies.

^2bis For sug­ar beet for sug­ar pro­duc­tion, a con­tri­bu­tion of 2,100 francs per hec­tare and year shall be paid un­til 2026. If the sug­ar beet is grown in ac­cord­ance with the re­quire­ments for or­gan­ic farm­ing or in­teg­rated pro­duc­tion, an ad­di­tion­al con­tri­bu­tion of 200 Swiss francs per hec­tare per year shall be paid un­til 2026.⁹²

³ Sub­sidies may also be paid for farm­land in the for­eign part of the Swiss bor­der zone un­der Art­icle 43 para­graph 2 of the Cus­toms Tar­iff Act of 18 March 2005⁹³.