Federal Act
on Agriculture
(Agriculture Act, AgricA)

¹ The Con­fed­er­a­tion shall sup­port struc­tur­al im­prove­ments with in­vest­ment loans.

² It shall provide funds for in­vest­ment loans to the can­ton­al au­thor­it­ies.

³ The can­ton­al au­thor­it­ies shall grant in­vest­ment loans in­terest-free.

⁴ Loans must be re­paid with­in 20 years.

⁵ If the loan is se­cured by a mort­gage, the or­der from the au­thor­it­ies grant­ing the loan may re­place the pub­lic deed con­tain­ing the mort­gage agree­ment.

⁶ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall set the in­vest­ment loan amounts and the re­pay­ment meth­ods.

⁷ It may stip­u­late re­quire­ments and ob­lig­a­tions re­lat­ing to the grant­ing of sub­sidies.