Federal Act
on Agriculture
(Agriculture Act, AgricA)

¹ Sub­sidies are paid for main­tain­ing open farm­land. These sub­sidies in­clude:

a.

a pay­ment per hec­tare, gradu­ated by zone, in or­der to en­cour­age the farm­ing of in­di­vidu­al zones;

b.

a graduated difficulty payment per hectare based on gradient and type of land-use in hilly areas in order to encourage farming under topographically difficult conditions;

c.

in ad­di­tion, a gradu­ated pay­ment based on the pro­por­tion of hay mead­ows on steep slopes;

d.

a pay­ment for graz­ing cer­tain live­stock for 100 days on sum­mer pas­tures for farms run on a year-round basis in or­der to en­cour­age the use of Alpine pas­tures;

e.

a sum­mer graz­ing sub­sidy, gradu­ated ac­cord­ing to live­stock cat­egory, per live­stock unit on sum­mer graz­ing or per nor­mal stock in or­der to en­cour­age the use and main­ten­ance of sum­mer pas­tures.

² In the case of sum­mer graz­ing sub­sidies, the Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall stip­u­late the ac­cept­able level of oc­cu­pa­tion and live­stock cat­egor­ies for which the sub­sidy is paid.