Federal Act
on Agriculture
(Agriculture Act, AgricA)

¹ Farm­ers re­ceive dir­ect pay­ments as com­pens­a­tion for the pub­lic ser­vices they provide.

² Dir­ect pay­ments in­clude:

a.

sub­sidies for farm­land;

b.

sub­sidies for en­sur­ing sup­ply;

c.

biod­iversity sub­sidies;

d.

sub­sidies for the qual­ity of the land­scape;

e.

sub­sidies for pro­duc­tion sys­tems;

f.

sub­sidies for the ef­fi­cient use of re­sources;

g.

bridging sub­sidies.

³ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil stip­u­lates the level of sub­sidies, tak­ing in­to ac­count the ex­tent of the pub­lic ser­vices provided the work in­volved in provid­ing such ser­vices and the po­ten­tial mar­ket yield.