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Article: Farmers on tourist land.(News)
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- Swiss News
- Article date:
- January 1, 2005
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Grindelwald, the Bernese Oberland village has for decades benefited from a fragile yet strong symbiosis between agriculture and tourism. "Tourism needs agriculture and agriculture needs tourism," says Sami Brawand, a farmer in Grindelwald.
Brawand and his wile attend to eight heads of dairy cattle on his farm spanning six hectares. When done with the farm chores, the couple walk across the ski lift and wait on customers at their small restaurant on the other side. The lift operator pays Brawand's farming cooperative for the rights to run the lift on its land.
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