Institute of Animal Science the Ukrainian Academy of Agrarian Sciences

Director - E. Rudenko

Cattle-Breeding Institute was established in October, 1929. At present the institute employs 125 people, including 15 Doctors of Sciences, 54 PhDs, one academician of the Ukrainian Academy of Agrarian Sciences, that work at 4 departments and 18 laboratories.

The institute is a scientific center dealing with cattle-breeding issues and a regional center for technological support to agricultural sector, while coordinating the operation of 13 institutes and 17 regional state agricultural research stations.
For over 72 years of operation, the institute has created unique potential and gained qualified staff to conduct theoretical and practical research in the following fields:
- development of power and resource saving methods for cattle breeding;
- study of cattle feeding and scientific grounding of fodder preparation and procurement basing on the detailed standards;
- development and production of home-made fodder admixture and pre-mixes, design and construction of small-scale fodder-manufacturing plants and shops;
- breeding and improvement of pedigree cattle and development of power and resource saving methods for their growing and keeping;
- development of biotechnological methods of breeding, artificial pollination, transplantation and genetic engineering;
- immunogenetic inspection in cattle-breeding, estimation of cattle-breeding methods in terms of their nutritive value, quantitative and qualitive analysis of fodder, cattle-breeding products, milk rough purification and pre-processing;
- study of management, organization, marketing and planning in agricultural production;
- development of systems for cattle-breeding managment at farms both large and small, and of all types of ownership with the purpose of producing safe products, even in the region of radioactive contamination;