DEPARTMENT OF TECHNOLOGY, ECOLOGY AND ECONOMICS OF ANIMAL PRODUCTION

Head: dr inż. Jacek Walczak

Scientific Supervisor : prof. dr hab. Eugeniusz Herbut

Balice, tel: 0-12/ 258 81 66, e-mail: eherbut@izoo.krakow.pl

Research staff:

prof.dr hab. Eugeniusz Herbut, prof.dr hab. Stanisława Okularczyk, doc.dr hab. Juliusz Kraszewski, doc.dr hab. Jolanta Paschma, dr inż. Andrzej Kaczor, dr inż. Maciej Ligaszewski, dr inż. Ewa Matuszewska, dr inż. Ewa Sosnówka-Czajka, dr inż. Elżbieta Sowula-Skrzyńska, dr inż. Agata Szewczyk, dr inż. Anna Szumiec, dr inż. Jacek Walczak.

Research topics:

• Determining the effect of breeding technology on animal productivity and quality of animal raw materials and animal products.
• Improvement of livestock management systems in terms of welfare and environmental protection.
• Studies on the economic efficiency of animal production and influence of environmental, biological and structural factors.
• Evaluation of the functionality of different animal management systems
• Animal welfare issues.
• Effect of various technical solutions on productivity and on milk and meat quality.
• Interfered and ecological systems of livestock breeding.
• Effect of animal effluents on the environment.
• Profitability of animal production.
• The animal products market; minimizing the costs of animal breeding.
• Forecasting economic efficiency of animal production studies.