Federal Act
on Agriculture
(Agriculture Act, AgricA)

¹ As a rule, loans to sup­port farm­ers un­der the terms of Art­icle 79 para­graph 1 are gran­ted if the fol­low­ing re­quire­ments are met:¹¹⁸

a.¹¹⁹

the farm must provide a liv­ing in the longer term, if ne­ces­sary with a second in­come from out­side the ag­ri­cul­tur­al sec­tor, and re­quire an ap­pro­pri­ate and at least a nor­mal amount of la­bour;

b.

the farm is be­ing run on an ef­fi­cient basis;

c.

the level of debt after a loan has been gran­ted is ser­vice­able.

² In or­der to en­sure land-use or a suf­fi­cient pop­u­la­tion dens­ity, the Fed­er­al Coun­cil may set a lower level of la­bour than that in­dic­ated in para­graph 1 let­ter a for farms in up­land and moun­tain areas.¹²⁰

³ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil may stip­u­late fur­ther re­quire­ments and ob­lig­a­tions.