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The association is composed of representatives of 25 cantonal farmers' associations and 60 agricultural umbrella and specialized organizations (21 from the animal production sector, 13 from the crop production sector, 4 cooperative associations, and 22 from other sectors; as of November 2023).
Mountain agriculture in the Toggenburg. Agriculture in Switzerland, one of the economic sectors of the country, has developed since the 6th millennium BC and was the principal activity and first source of income until the 19th century. Framework of rural society, agriculture has as main factors the natural conditions (climate), the demographic ...
Completely new technologies changed their lives and natural sciences offered completely different explanations for life procedures and agricultural production than before. In the 19th century, Switzerland, therefore, began to find local agricultural institutes. With the new Federal Constitution of 1848, the modern welfare state began to develop.
American Poultry Association; National FFA Organization (Future Farmers of America) Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences; The National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry (The Grange) National Farmers Union
Livestock density is high in Switzerland. It is more than double the average livestock density in the European Union. There are 1.7 livestock units per ha of usable agricultural area in Switzerland, compared with 0.7 in the EU, 3.6 in the Netherlands, 1.9 in Denmark, 1.1 in Germany, 0.9 in Austria, 0.8 in France and Italy. [2]
Fenaco was founded in 1993 as a merger of six existing agricultural cooperative federations with roots in the late 19th century: [24] [25] Union des coopératives agricoles romandes UCAR; Association of agricultural cooperatives of the Canton of Friborg (French Fédération des coopératives agricoles du Canton de Fribourg, FCA), based in Fribourg
The Federal Office for Agriculture (FOAG) [a] is Switzerland's competence centre for agricultural issues, responsible for agricultural policy and for direct payments to Swiss farmers. [1] It is also responsible for Agroscope , the Swiss Confederation's center of excellence for agricultural research .
The organic label "Bio Suisse" is widely distributed in Switzerland, for instance through organic food shops, farmers markets and the largest supermarkets chains: Coop Naturaplan and Migros Bio. As of 2022, 17,4 percent of Swiss farms are organic and the organic market in Switzerland share to almost 11 percent.