Unsere Umgebung

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Making Food Production and the Swiss Food
Industry Competitive Jacques
Bourgeois Director
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Our Environment
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The gap between consumer prices and producer
prices continues to widen.
Cost price index for agr. means of
productionNational consumer price index (LIK)
Indexpoints
Producer price index for agricultural products
LIK only for the foodstuffs group
Development of price indexes (1990 100)
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Relative Price Level
Swiss price level relative to EU-15
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Comparison of Food Prices
Explanation of food price difference Switzerland
- Germany
35
Level
30
Retail trade cost disadvantage
Retail trade
25
20
Processing/finishing
Processing
cost disadvantage
15
Cost disadvantage for
10
agricultural raw materials
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Agriculture
Level
0
Source Migros
Price difference between
Switzerland and Germany in francs
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Cost comparison
Cost comparison South Germany CH (CH100)
Basis 2000
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Structural Change in Agriculture
Decrease of operations in the period 1990-2000
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? Unbalanced liberalisation jeopardises the
fulfilment of the constitutional mandate