Federal Act
on Agriculture
(Agriculture Act, AgricA)

¹ Land own­ers must tol­er­ate the prac­tice of leav­ing land fal­low without claim­ing com­pens­a­tion provided it is in the pub­lic in­terest. A pub­lic in­terest arises in par­tic­u­lar if land must be left fal­low in or­der to main­tain ag­ri­cul­tur­al use, to pro­tect against nat­ur­al threats or to con­serve flora and fauna that re­quire spe­cial pro­tec­tion.

² Land own­ers must tol­er­ate the prac­tice for at least three years. If the own­er wishes to farm the land him­self or her­self after this peri­od, or wishes to have it farmed by a ten­ant farm­er, the per­son farm­ing the land up un­til then must be in­formed ac­cord­ingly at least six months in ad­vance.

³ The can­ton­al au­thor­it­ies shall draw up the ne­ces­sary pro­vi­sions for im­ple­ment­a­tion; they shall de­cide in in­di­vidu­al cases wheth­er leav­ing land fal­low is to be tol­er­ated.