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Agriculture: What does the Swiss public expect?
Presentation
Dairy
Press Tour
Switzerland
2013
Sermin Faki,
Parliament
correspondent
«Zentralschweiz am Sonntag» Slide2
What does the public expect?
Good
and healthy products for a reasonable price!(Well, it’s not that simple. Sorry.)
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Imaginations of Agriculture
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Imaginations of Agriculture
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Average size of farms in comparisonSlide5
Imaginations of AgricultureAgriculture: What does the Swiss Public expect? Dairy Press Tour Switzerland 2013
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Imaginations of AgricultureSwiss are
convinced
thatregulations concerning animal welfare and environmentally friendly production are
stricter than
abroad
Swiss
food
is
produced
closer
to
nature
than
abroadSwiss agricultural products have a higher quality than imported goodsSwiss agricultural products are worth their (high) price
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Surveys show that …ethical
husbandry
environmentally
sound farmingproduction of healthy food and security of supply
… are
the
most
frequently
mentioned
expectations
. Also
important
are
reasonable
income for farmerspreservation of cultural landscapeAgriculture: What does the Swiss Public expect? Dairy Press Tour Switzerland 20137Slide8
Fragmentation of the Swiss public
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University of St. Gallen, 2007Slide9
Conservativespreserve the traditional
agriculture
and the rural culturesmall, familiy driven farmssecurity of supply (
self-sufficiency) is
more
important
than
ecology
and
animal
welfare
so
opening-up
of the Swiss marketAgriculture: What does the Swiss Public expect? Dairy Press Tour Switzerland 20139Slide10
Reformersmarket-orienteduse
of
technological progress (including GM)ecomomization of agriculure opening-up of the market
no
strict
regulations
considering
animal
welfare
and
environmentally
sound
production (prices and competitiveness)Agriculture: What does the Swiss Public expect? Dairy Press Tour Switzerland 201310Slide11
Ecologistsanimal welfare
and
environmentally sound productionpreservation of traditional species and breedspreservation of
precious land
Ecologits
are
themselves
fractioned
in
reformers
and
conservatives
.
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Why this fragmentation?urban vs
rural
population
high pricesAgriculture: What does the Swiss Public expect? Dairy Press Tour Switzerland 201312OECDSlide13
Why this fragmentation?consumers
are
also tax payers3.35 billion Swiss Francs subsidies per yearAgriculture: What does the Swiss Public expect? Dairy Press Tour Switzerland 201313Slide14
OutlookBad news for
traditional
farmers
:urban population will growdue to high spending power self-sufficiency isn’t a big dealTherefore reform-
oriented
fraction
will
grow
.
Thank
you
!
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