Together with the university biography, the Faculty of Agrotechnologies and Ecology writes its own history. It was established according to the decision of the University Senate and the order of the TSATU No. 2 OD dated August 3, 2007. The Dean was appointed as Candidate of Technical Sciences, Associate Professor Oleksandr Petrovich Lomeiko.
Before the establishment of the Faculty of Agrotechnologies and Ecology, the training of specialists in these fields was conducted at the Faculty of Processing and Storage of Agricultural Products, which until 2007 was headed by Candidate of Technical Sciences, Professor Fedir Yukhymovych Yalpachik.
Since 2011, the faculty has been headed by Candidate of Agricultural Sciences, Associate Professor Oksana Anatoliivna Ivanchenko.
The faculty consisted of seven departments: Plant Science (head – Professor, Dr. Sci. (Agr.) Vitaliy V. Kalytka), Chemistry and Biotechnology (head – Candidate of Sci. (Agr.), Associate Professor Mykola O. Kolesnikov), Department of Occupational Safety and Life Safety (head – Candidate of Technical Sciences, Professor Yuriy P. Rohach), Department of Ecology and Environmental Protection (head – Professor, Dr. Biol. Sci. Anatoliy M. Volokh), Department of Philosophy and Sociology (head – Candidate of Philos. Sci., Associate Professor Volodymyr M. Karman), Department of Agricultural Product Processing and Storage Technology (head – Candidate of Technical Sciences, Associate Professor Natalia P. Zahorko), and the Department of Foreign Languages (Acting Head – Candidate of Philol. Sci., Associate Professor Yulia O. Polykarpova).
In 2012, the faculty conducted its first enrollment of students in the field of “Occupational Safety”. The necessity of this specialty was driven by the requirements of the Ukrainian Law “On Occupational Safety” and the increasing level of industrial injuries, professional illnesses, and technological accidents in production. In 2013, the first enrollment of students in the field of “Food Technology and Engineering” was conducted.
Since 2014, the Dean of the Faculty of Agrotechnologies and Ecology has been appointed as Candidate of Sci. (Agr.), Associate Professor Iryna Yevhenivna Ivanova. In 2015, the composition of the faculty was changed, and it began to include five departments: Plant Science (head – Candidate of Sci. (Agr.), Associate Professor Liudmyla V. Todorova), Chemistry and Biotechnology (head – Candidate of Sci. (Agr.), Associate Professor Mykola O. Kolesnikov), Department of Occupational Safety and Life Safety (head – Candidate of Technical Sciences, Professor Yuriy P. Rohach), Department of Ecology and Environmental Protection (head – Candidate of Technical Sciences, Associate Professor Ihor O. Khaliman), and the Department of Agricultural Product Processing and Storage Technology (head – Candidate of Technical Sciences, Associate Professor Natalia P. Zahorko).
Today, the faculty is one of the centers of higher agronomic education in the southeastern region of Ukraine. Its graduates are over 500 highly qualified specialists who have become scientific and pedagogical workers, qualified associate professors, skilled managers, organizers, and professionals in agricultural production, as well as managers of various state and private structures. The faculty trains specialists in four fields of study: “Agronomy”, “Ecology, Environmental Protection, and Balanced Nature Management”, “Occupational Safety”, and “Food Technology and Engineering”, with degrees of Bachelor, Specialist, and Master.
But wherever and in whatever position our graduates work, they continue the glorious history of our university and their faculty, deeply patriotic, nationally conscious, and statesmanlike in both spirit and substance.
We have reasons to be proud of our history, to look up to, and to learn from. That’s why we scrutinize each newcomer so closely and diligently every year, as they join the ranks of the student family. Because we want to preserve our glorious traditions and the connection between generations, to achieve new successes in the educational, scientific, and socio-political realm.
The most valuable resource and asset of the faculty are its academic and teaching staff. Currently, 59 highly qualified teachers work at four departments of the faculty, including 6 Doctors of Sciences and Professors, and 31 Candidates of Sciences, Associate Professors. The priceless “golden fund” of the faculty includes such well-known personalities in scientific and pedagogical circles as Academician of the National Academy of Agrarian Sciences, Academician of the Academy of Sciences of Higher Education of Ukraine, Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor V.V. Kalytka; Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor V.M. Volokh; Academician, Honored Scientist and Technologist, Candidate of Technical Sciences, Professor Yu.P. Rohach; leading experienced associate professors N.P. Zahorko, M.O. Kolesnikov, O.M. Alekseeva, and others.
To ensure high-quality education for students during both academic and extracurricular hours, the faculty has created appropriate conditions. Classes with students are conducted in specialized classrooms and laboratories. For the convenience of students, there are reading rooms, including one in the main dormitory of students – dormitory №3. Educational-methodical cabinets and a computer class (aud.5110) with Internet access are also available. The Internet network is also available in the student dormitory of faculty №3.
Students have the opportunity to actively engage in scientific research on experimental fields, in greenhouses, and in numerous research laboratories of specialized departments. Students undergo educational internships on departmental experimental fields, in research institutions, and production units, and industrial internships in the best farms of both the public and private sectors. The best students undergo internships abroad – in Germany, France, Great Britain, Czech Republic, Poland, Belgium, Denmark, and other countries.
Students of our faculty, ultimately, as well as in the university as a whole, have the opportunity to obtain a second higher education, to study foreign languages intensively and undergo language practice abroad, to obtain a driver’s license for passenger vehicles, to complete advanced courses in computer technology with programming basics, to obtain working professions. This is far from an exhaustive list of educational services and promising offers that every student of the Faculty of Agrotechnologies and Ecology can fully avail themselves of.
The pride of our university is highly professional amateur artistic activity and numerous sports sections, in the functioning of which students of the Faculty of Agrotechnologies and Ecology take part. Each student can choose the type of amateur artistic activity and sports according to their preferences.
After completing their education and receiving professional training, agronomy technologists, agronomists, professionals in fruit and vegetable growing and viticulture, environmental engineers, labor protection inspectors, food engineering technologists can work in relevant positions in farms of various ownership forms engaged in the production, storage, processing, and marketing of agricultural products; in nurseries and fruit farms involved in the cultivation and sale of fruit, berry crops, and grapes; research institutions, breeding stations, quarantine and seed inspections, scientific laboratories, plant protection stations and points; nature conservation authorities, land resources management, state ecological and agricultural inspections, environmental expertise laboratories, ecological posts of customs and border crossings, in state administration bodies, phytosanitary services, and so on.
The best graduates can work as teachers in educational institutions – schools, lyceums, technical schools, colleges, institutes, universities; in the agricultural sector management system, agribusiness, and in local government bodies, parliamentary committees of councils at various levels, and so on.
We believe that all our graduates will take a worthy place in society and will glorify their Alma mater with their achievements and good deeds. And our sights are set on the future applicants of the faculty. We want them, like their predecessors, to write their page in the glorious history of the university and the faculty, and their time at the university to become the happiest and most memorable years of their lives.
The academic and teaching staff, as well as student organizations of the faculty, will do everything to ensure that all applicants become full-fledged members of our faculty family, develop into highly professional specialists, and worthy citizens of the state.