tl;dr: The existing payments get adjusted for (expected) inflation and the structural improvement fonds gets a small increase in funds. No increases in direct payments or agricultural subsidies. This is a nothingburger, hence the 187-2 decision.
TIL: Switzerland spends nearly as much as France does on Agricultural subsidies (France spends 15bn euros, apparently).
Incredible – especially when we still pay so much for food.
Now this is something i have to comment on as i myself work for the federal office of agriculture which develops the subsidiary plans and proposes/develops policies for the bundesrat. This is an extremely complex topic and there is an entire research institute called Agroscope with over 1000 researchers as well as the federal office itself with around 300 employees working very hard on developing the swiss agrary policies 2030+ in a way that ensures sustainability, a decent quality of life for farmers, secures national food production and many other things.. but of course every one of you keyboard warriors with your unqualified opinions knows best how things should be done.. b**** please 😂
You can start by educating yourselves and at least looking at the official numbers and not these nonsense conclusions that some of the very poorly researched mainstream media articles suggest: https://www.agrarbericht.ch/de
To keep it short: There was absolutely no increase in payments, rather a decision on no cuts as it was planned for the greater part of the year.
Please don’t confuse the organizations involved in developing policies with the populist representatives of the farmers (which are currently greatly overrepresented in the parlament.. but let’s not get into politics).
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Interesting approach, everybody else needs to save, but not the agriculture industry that ruins the environment.
booohhhh 👎🏻👎🏻👎🏻
“By a 187-2 vote majority” I’m surprised there’s such a majority, especially given it was against the federal council recommendations.
I know posting links with a controversial title and then being outraged in the comments is becoming the norm in /r/Switzerland, but in case anyone wants to take a look at the actual decision (of which the link makes no mention), you can find it [here](https://www.parlament.ch/de/ratsbetrieb/suche-curia-vista/geschaeft?AffairId=20240061).
tl;dr: The existing payments get adjusted for (expected) inflation and the structural improvement fonds gets a small increase in funds. No increases in direct payments or agricultural subsidies. This is a nothingburger, hence the 187-2 decision.
TIL: Switzerland spends nearly as much as France does on Agricultural subsidies (France spends 15bn euros, apparently).
Incredible – especially when we still pay so much for food.
Now this is something i have to comment on as i myself work for the federal office of agriculture which develops the subsidiary plans and proposes/develops policies for the bundesrat. This is an extremely complex topic and there is an entire research institute called Agroscope with over 1000 researchers as well as the federal office itself with around 300 employees working very hard on developing the swiss agrary policies 2030+ in a way that ensures sustainability, a decent quality of life for farmers, secures national food production and many other things.. but of course every one of you keyboard warriors with your unqualified opinions knows best how things should be done.. b**** please 😂
You can start by educating yourselves and at least looking at the official numbers and not these nonsense conclusions that some of the very poorly researched mainstream media articles suggest: https://www.agrarbericht.ch/de
To keep it short: There was absolutely no increase in payments, rather a decision on no cuts as it was planned for the greater part of the year.
Please don’t confuse the organizations involved in developing policies with the populist representatives of the farmers (which are currently greatly overrepresented in the parlament.. but let’s not get into politics).
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