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The impacts of agriculture in Switzerland are not only economic. The agricultural sector uses around half of the surface area of the country and contributes in the shaping the Swiss landscape. Swiss farmers also produce more than half of the food consumed in Switzerland, thereby helping to safeguard national food security and culinary traditions.
Dairy farming and cheesemaking traditions represented with paper-cutting technique (1867). Switzerland has a strong and ancestral dairy farming and cheesemaking tradition. The breeding of cattle, sheep and goats for milk is attested in the Neolithic period and, since Antiquity, cheese has been exported from the Alpine regions.
A cow in Switzerland. This article provides information on animal production and consumption in Switzerland.. Animal production in Switzerland covers livestock numbers (cattle, pigs, poultry, sheep), egg and milk production, and animals slaughtered for meat production.
Switzerland is a leading exporter of high-end watches and clocks. Swiss companies produce most of the world's high-end watches: in 2011 exports reached nearly 19.3 billion CHF, up 19.2% over the previous year. Watch manufacturing is mostly located around the Jura mountains, in the cantons of Geneva, Vaud, Neuchâtel, Bern, and Jura.
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. [2]
Gotthard line in 1882 Development of real GDP per capita, 1851 to 2018. Switzerland as a federal state was established in 1848. Before that time, the city-cantons of Zürich, Geneva, and Basel in particular began to develop economically based on industry and trade, while the rural regions of Switzerland remained poor and underdeveloped.
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The Swiss territory is divided into four major types of land use. As of 2001, 36.9% [26] of the land in Switzerland was used for farming. 30.8% of the country is covered with forests and woodlands, [26] with an additional 6.8% covered with houses or buildings. [1]