Switzerland is the state that "helps" more agriculture

Switzerland, among the 34 members of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), is the country that subsidizes most agriculture. The Helvetic country ousted from the throne of Norway, according to the latest edition of the OECD report which takes into account all aid from export support to direct payments for ecological services.

In Confederation just over 60% of the farmer's income in 2015 came from the state. Compared to 2014, public support for the primary sector in Switzerland grew by 3 percentage points, the results of which were revealed today by the Berner Zeitung. The progression is a result of the abandonment of the minimum exchange rate between euro and franc in January last year by the Swiss National Bank.

To enable farmers to cope with the strong Swiss franc, the federal government has increased its financial aid to support the export of processed agricultural products under the so-called "Chocolate Act."

In total in the OECD between 2013 and 2015 agriculture were granted for 538 billion euro (about 584 billion Swiss francs). In the ranking last year, behind Switzerland and Norway, Iceland, South Korea and Japan.