About

RUE "Scientific and Practical Center of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus for Animal Husbandry" is a large association of zootechnical and veterinary science of the Republic of Belarus. His developments are known not only in the republic, but also far beyond its borders.

The main activities of the Scientific and Practical Center are:

• improving the efficiency of animal husbandry and veterinary medicine sectors by conducting scientific research and introducing scientific developments into production;
• increasing scientific potential through postgraduate studies, qualifications of livestock specialists through courses, seminars and conferences.

The Republican Unitary Enterprise "Scientific and Practical Center of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus for Livestock" was created on the basis of the Republican Unitary Enterprise "Institute of Livestock of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus" in accordance with the Decree of the President of the Republic of Belarus dated April 18, 2006 No. 242 "On the establishment of scientific and practical centers of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus Sciences of Belarus and some measures for the implementation of scientific activities” and was registered by the decision of the Minsk Regional Executive Committee dated August 30, 2006 No. 862.

History of creation and succession

• Department of Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Medicine of the Institute of Socialist Agriculture of the Department of Natural and Agricultural Sciences of the Academy of Sciences of the BSSR (July 1944 - December 1949);
• Institute of Animal Husbandry of the Academy of Sciences of the BSSR (December 1949 - March 1956);
• Belarusian Research Institute of Animal Husbandry (March 1956 - November 2000);
• Republican Unitary Enterprise "Belarusian Research Institute of Animal Husbandry" (November 2000 - March 2002);
• Republican Unitary Enterprise "Institute of Animal Husbandry of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus" (March 2002 - August 2006);
• Research Unitary Enterprise "Scientific and Practical Center for Animal Husbandry of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus" (since August 2006).

Since 2006, the Institute of Livestock of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus has been designated as the head institution of the Scientific and Practical Center of the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus for animal husbandry.

The Center includes subsidiaries:

• Republican unitary enterprise "Institute of Experimental Veterinary Medicine named after A.I. S.N. Vyshelesskogo"
• RIU "Institute of Fisheries"
• Regional unitary enterprise "Experimental research station for poultry"
• SE "ZhodinoAgroPlemElita"

During the period of its development, scientific schools on selection, feeding, hygiene, physiology of farm animals and technologies for the production of livestock products have been created at the Center.

The laboratories of the Center conduct research in the field of improving the reproduction and artificial insemination of farm animals, transplantation of cattle embryos, transgenesis in animal husbandry, the study of oogenesis, early embryogenesis and fertilization processes, obtaining embryonic stem cells of cloned and transgenic animals.

The use of DNA technologies in animal husbandry is aimed at developing methods for assessing animals by genotype at an early age, predicting the manifestation of traits, and increasing the efficiency of selection for traits with a low level of heritability; conducting marker selection for a set of traits; genotyping of embryos for a number of genes of economically useful traits.

A comprehensive assessment of the nutritional value of feed is carried out for a wide range of indicators - dry matter, feed units, metabolic energy, protein, amino acids, macro- and microelements, vitamins, anti-nutritional and harmful substances with the determination of their nutritional qualities.

Based on an in-depth study of the processes of cicatricial digestion, systematic work is being carried out to improve the norms of the need for highly productive cows in nutrients and biologically active substances, to develop the optimal structure of diets, recipes for premixes, BVMD and mixed fodder, taking into account the peculiarities of the fodder production of the republic.

The development of technological parameters for the preparation of high-energy feed is being carried out.

Norms of energy-protein, amino acid, mineral and vitamin nutrition of animals are being developed and improved.

Work is actively underway to develop methods for improving selection and genetic methods used in breeding the Belarusian specialized dairy breed "Belgolshtin".

New highly productive lines and types are being improved and created in breeding herds of pig breeds bred in the republic, optimal options for three- and four-breed crossing in pig breeding are being developed.

Scientific and methodological support of the breeding process in the basic pig breeding enterprises is being carried out.

A biotechnology for obtaining primary transgenic goats has been developed, transgenic animals for the human lactoferrin gene have been obtained for the first time in the world, a direction of transgenic biotechnology in animal husbandry is being formed to obtain medicinal substances for pharmacology and medicine using animal producers.