Federal Act
on Agriculture
(Agriculture Act, AgricA)

¹ The Con­fed­er­a­tion shall grant sub­sidies with­in the lim­its of the ap­proved cred­its for:

a.

land im­prove­ment;

b.

ag­ri­cul­tur­al build­ings;

c.¹³⁴

pro­jects in con­nec­tion with re­gion­al de­vel­op­ment and to pro­mote loc­al and re­gion­al products in which ag­ri­cul­ture plays a ma­jor role;

d.¹³⁵

build­ings for small busi­nesses in moun­tain areas in­so­far as they are for pro­cessing and selling ag­ri­cul­tur­al products and thus add value; such busi­nesses must deal with at least the first stage of pro­cessing;

e.¹³⁶

joint ini­ti­at­ives taken by farm­ers aimed at lower­ing pro­duc­tion costs.

² …¹³⁷

³ Fed­er­al sub­sidies are only gran­ted on con­di­tion that an ap­pro­pri­ate con­tri­bu­tion is made by the can­ton­al au­thor­it­ies and its pub­lic law ter­rit­ori­al au­thor­it­ies.

⁴ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil may stip­u­late re­quire­ments and ob­lig­a­tions re­lat­ing to the grant­ing of sub­sidies.