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The average agricultural income was around 60 000 Swiss francs in 2009. On the other hand, the agricultural sector is heavily indebted with a debt factor — i.e. the theoretical number of years to repay a loan — which has increased by more than a year and a half since 2000. [11] Fertile arable land is constantly shrinking in Switzerland.
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 ...
The Agriculture Network Information Collective (AgNIC) [1] alliance was formed in 1995 by a group of four land grant institutions - Cornell University, Iowa State University, University of Arizona, and University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Library (NAL). In 1998, NAL assumed the role as ...
These titles were reported to be technical, economic, professional, trade-union, agricultural, sports and religious magazines. [1] Bollinger also stated that the Swiss political and news magazines were not aggressive like those in other European languages. [1] The following is an incomplete list of current and defunct magazines published in ...
SWI swissinfo.ch is a Swiss multilingual international news and information company based in Bern.It is a part of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SRG SSR). Its content is Swiss-centred, with top priority given to in-depth information on politics, the economy, the arts, science, education, and direct democracy.
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
Chestnut grove and coppice management replaced slash-and-burn agriculture. The climate of southern Switzerland particularly suited the chestnut, to the point it became known as the "bread tree". [1] [2] The chestnut was also introduced in the southern valleys of the Grisons [3] and Valais.