Federal Act
on Agriculture
(Agriculture Act, AgricA)

¹ Sub­sidies are paid for the qual­ity of the land­scape in or­der to main­tain, pro­mote and fur­ther de­vel­op a var­ied land­scape.

² The Con­fed­er­a­tion provides fund­ing to the can­ton­al au­thor­it­ies on a per hec­tare or per nor­mal stock basis if:

a.

the can­ton­al au­thor­it­ies or an­oth­er ap­pro­pri­ate re­gion­al agency has set tar­gets and drawn up meas­ures aimed at achiev­ing these tar­gets;

b.

the can­ton­al au­thor­it­ies and farm­ers have agreed on farm­ing prac­tices cor­res­pond­ing to such meas­ures; and

c.

the tar­gets and meas­ures meet the re­quire­ments for sus­tain­able spa­tial de­vel­op­ment.

³ The Con­fed­er­a­tion shall provide a max­im­um of 90 per cent of the sub­sidies guar­an­teed by the can­ton­al au­thor­it­ies.