The department carries out:

– conducting all types of educational, scientific and methodological, scientific, cultural and educational work in the process of training specialists of the Bachelor's and Master's degree programs in the areas of "Technology of production and processing of livestock products", "Aquatic bioresources", "Veterinary medicine", "Agronomy", "Food technologies";

– training of highly qualified scientific personnel through postgraduate and doctoral studies in specialty 204 - "Technology of production and processing of livestock products";

– innovations through advanced training courses for specialists in the field of livestock farming.

       Currently, the department, having its own experimental base, analytical laboratory and qualified staff, actively cooperates with state, commercial and private institutions in the development of animal feeding and feed technology.        

       The department's employees annually participate in international, all-Ukrainian and regional conferences, seminars and meetings. The department's staff is developing new approaches to regulating animal feeding, issues of stimulating nutritional functions, age-related variability of economically useful traits of the animal organism under the influence of different levels of their feeding, assessment of the nutritional value of feeds, effective methods of using feed additives, and programming the quality of livestock products.