of The Swiss farmer’s Association is seeking greater recognition in the policy. Therefore, he fights against the marginalization of the economic performance of agriculture. At a media conference in Hergiswil, Switzerland, and the top representatives of the farmers ‘ Association fought back yesterday against the common approach to measure the economic importance of the agriculture sector alone, the share of the gross domestic product.
“The effective value of the local basic industry, agriculture, is this number in any way,” said Bauer, President of the Association Markus knight . The design of high value-added industries in the urban centers, such as banks, pharmaceutical industry or insurance companies, covering the fact that in rural areas, where the peasants constitute an economically important factor.
At the press conference of the manufacturer supplied Numbers of Association: according to farmer’s families give every year, around 6.3 billion Swiss francs, the landed virtually in its entirety in the local industry – for example, at the vet, at the agricultural machinery dealer and a carpenter.
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On the other hand, produced the farmers, food raw materials and food to the value of around ten billion Swiss francs. This in turn led to a total market in the processing and trade emerging from around 60 billion Swiss francs. Agriculture was vielenorts bearing support local economy, local infrastructure, and of village life, pointing also to the fact that the industry is safe, with around 300’000 eight percent of all jobs.
the value of the farmers ‘ Association put on its media conference to promote recognition of public services of agriculture. The Use of such services is a political and society are, their value not quantified. As examples of public services farmers Association Director and FDP called the national Council, Jacques Bourgeois, yesterday, the security of supply, landscape maintenance, or the revival of rural areas. “Without the farmers, the Switzerland would be a large forest area,” said Bourgeois.
Because official Figures are not available, provided by the farmers ‘ Association of their own, and for the area of landscape maintenance. For the maintenance of Green areas along the motorways turn to the Federal government, according to official data of the Federal office for roads annually 8200 francs per hectare. We expect this for the Mowing of the 1.5 million hectares of agricultural land is high, would annually incur a cost of around 6.2 billion Swiss francs in the case of a half amount, due to economies of scale. “We have halved the amount, because it could be such a huge area with large machines easier mowing, as this can do for state workers, along the national roads,” explains knight, the “scale effect”.
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Markus Ritter feared, wants to be worked in order to underline that the management of the agricultural land would be by “officials” much more expensive because the farmers are very favorable. “Only very few farmers can reach the Swiss average hourly wage of 29 Swiss francs,” says knight.
The information campaign of the farmers ‘ Association has backgrounds. This year, various political Decisions, which affect the farmers directly. The development of agricultural policy, the Revision of the spatial planning law to Build outside the building zone, new free trade agreements and the people’s initiatives “clean water” and “For a Switzerland without synthetic pesticides”.
have connected All of this tract, according to Markus Ritter the potential to weaken the development of farms and the economic viability of food production.
(editing Tamedia)
Created: 04.01.2019, 06:15 PM
