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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.
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 .
Some useful resources for learning about e-agriculture in practice are the World Bank's e-sourcebook ICT in agriculture – connecting smallholder farmers to knowledge, networks and institutions (2011), [2] ICT uses for inclusive value chains (2013), [3] ICT uses for inclusive value chains (2013) [4] and Success stories on information and ...
Agricultural products that Switzerland is famous for such as cheese (0.23%), wine (0.028%), and chocolate (0.35%) all make up only a small portion of Swiss exports. [57] Switzerland is also a significant exporter of arms and ammunition, and the third largest for small calibers [58] which accounted for 0.33% of the total exports in 2012. [59]
In 1941, the Swiss Rural Women's Association joined the SFU. [5] In 1937, the SFU was pivotal in establishing the Agricultural Information Service (AIS). [6] In 1947, a placement office for agricultural workers and trainees was established. Workers were initially recruited mainly from Italy, and later from Spain, Portugal, and Yugoslavia. [7]
From 1889 to 1916, he headed the editorial board of the Swiss agricultural newspaper The Green. On 3 June 1903, he was made an honorary member of the Highland Agricultural Society of Scotland in Edinburgh. [23] Ernst August Grete (1848–1919) Member of the Board of Directors of the first Swiss agricultural chemistry research station
A recreation of a scene from the report, showing a woman harvesting cooked spaghetti from the branches of a tree. The spaghetti-tree hoax was a three-minute hoax report broadcast on April Fools' Day 1957 by the BBC current-affairs programme Panorama, purportedly showing a family in southern Switzerland harvesting spaghetti from a "spaghetti tree".
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]