Published on January 3, 2025 at 5:35 p.m. / Modified on January 3, 2025 at 5:37 p.m.
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Last year, Swiss farmers were already denouncing increasing financial difficulties. And in twelve months, their situation has not improved. On the contrary: “After a peak in 2021, the income generated by each person working on a family farm experienced a marked decline in 2022 and 2023,” notes the Swiss Farmers’ Union (USP) this Friday in Kirchberg.
To illustrate this problem, the Swiss agricultural umbrella company went to this Bernese village to present the financial specificities of the Schürch-Wyss family’s 33-hectare farm. Gabi, owner of this organic farm and vice-president of the Swiss Union of Peasants and Rural Women (USPF), has always had to count as closely as possible, but in 2023, “our agricultural income amounted to 78,027 francs, distributed among 1.48 labor units. Or 52,600 francs for a full-time job. Our hourly wage is 18 francs. Significantly down compared to 2022 and 2021.
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