Mykola Povod
Doctor of Agricultural Sciences, Professor, Department of Fodder Technology and Animal Feeding
General Information
Date and place of birth: December 14, 1956, village of Petrykove, Vasylkivka District, Dnipropetrovsk Region.
Education
1972–1976 — Studied at the Novomoskovsk State Farm Technical School; graduated with honors and worked as a livestock specialist at the Zhdanov State Farm in the Novomoskovsk District.
1976–1981 — Studied at and graduated with honors from the Dnipropetrovsk Agricultural Institute. After graduation, worked as the chief livestock specialist at the “Ukraina” collective farm in the Sumy District, Sumy Region.
1993 — Defended his Candidate of Sciences dissertation at the Institute of Pig Breeding of the Ukrainian Academy of Agrarian Sciences (UAAS).
2000 — Received the academic rank of Associate Professor.
2015 — Defended his dissertation for the degree of Doctor of Agricultural Sciences in the specialty 06.02.04 “Technology of Livestock Product Production.”
Professional Experience
1983–2003 — Assistant, Senior Lecturer, and Associate Professor, Department of Farm Animal Breeding and Genetics, Dnipropetrovsk Agricultural Institute.
2003–2008 — Dean of the Faculty of Biotechnology, Dnipropetrovsk State Agrarian University.
2008–2016 — Associate Professor, Department of Breeding and Genetics, Dnipropetrovsk State Agrarian University.
Since 2016 — Department of Fodder Technology and Animal Feeding, Sumy National Agrarian University.
Key academic disciplines: “Technology of Pig Production.”
Research Work
Research area: Improvement of pork production technology.
He trains research personnel through postgraduate and doctoral programs. He currently supervises 5 PhD students and 2 doctoral candidates across the Sumy, Mykolaiv, and Dnipro agrarian universities. He has supervised the completion of 5 Candidate of Sciences degrees (specialties: 06.02.01 “Animal Breeding and Selection” and 06.02.04 “Livestock Production Technology”) and 6 Doctor of Philosophy degrees (specialty: 204 “Livestock Production and Processing Technology”).
He developed and implemented a training system for swine industry specialists, through which over 200 professionals have been trained across more than 20 educational institutions and enterprises within the Globyno Group.
He is the author of 336 scientific publications and a co-author of 6 monographs, 5 textbooks, 5 study guides (covering farm animal genetics and pork production technology), and 26 sets of methodological recommendations. He holds 5 utility model patents and 2 certificates of authorship.
He serves as an independent expert in the swine industry and as a pork production consultant for companies such as Globyno (Poltava region), Agroind (Dnipropetrovsk region), and Barkom (Lviv region). Over the past 20 years, he has led the development of more than 35 projects for swine production facilities of varying capacities and ownership structures.
Grant, state-funded, and contract-based research: No. 0117U004088 “Improvement of existing and development of new technical and technological solutions for industrial pork production processes, and the development of spatial planning solutions for modern pig farming facilities based on them.”
Professional Development
- October 28 – November 5, 2017 — Internship at Globynskyi Pig Complex R&D Enterprise LLC (Ukraine).
- Professional development — M.H. Povod (certificate).
