Department of Soil Science, Agriculture and Agrochemistry
History
The Department was established in 1919. Maryan Hurskyy was the founder and the first chief of the Department.
During its history the Department was headed by professor Yan Zhultsinskyy (1929-1936), professor A.Musyerovych (1936-1939), professor M.Hilis (1946-1977), assistant professor H.Andrushchenko (1962-1972), professor H.Krylova (1977-1995), professor R.Panas (1995-1999), professor A.Dzyubaylo (1999-2002). Since 2003 the Department is headed by assistant professor V.Lopushnyak.
In 1962-1963 two Departments were established on the base of the Department of Agrochemistry and Soil Science, i.e. Department of Soil Science and Department of Agrochemistry.
Since 1963 post graduate course started its functioning at the both Departments.
In 1972 the two Departments consolidated into one. At first the Department was headed by professor M.Hilis, since 1977 – by assistant professor H.Krylova.
In 2007 the Department of Soil Science, Agriculture and Agrochemistry was established on the base of two departments resulting from reorganization of the Faculty of Agrotechnology and Ecology. The Department was headed by acting professor V.Lopushnyak.
Nowadays staff of the Department is made by 2 professors, 9 candidates of science, 6 of them being assistant professors, 2 senior teachers, 2 senior laboratory assistants, 2 laboratory assistants, chief of scientific and research agrochemical laboratory.
Staff
V.I.Lopushnyak – chief of the Department, acting professor
Tomashivskyi Z.M. – professor, Doctor (PhD) of Agriculture
Krylova H.I. – Doctor (PhD) of Agriculture, Honored professor of the Department
Vyslobodska M.M. – assistant professor, Candidate of Agriculture
Parhuts I.M. - assistant professor, Candidate of Agriculture
Danyliuk V.B. - assistant professor, Candidate of Agriculture
Lahush N.I. - assistant professor, Candidate of Agriculture
Parhuts B.I. – senior lecturer
Ivaniuk V.Ya. – acting assistant professor, Candidate of Agriculture
Kovalets Yu.M. - senior lecturer, Candidate of Biology
Voinych K.P. – senior laboratory assistant
Volynets O.Ye. - senior laboratory assistant
Kunynets R.I. – manager of agrochemical research laboratory
Sudova O.I. - laboratory assistant
Boiko M.V. - laboratory assistant
Educational process
Department staff performs successfully a great amount of educational, educational-methodological, scientific and 
educative work, fruitfully works in training of specialists of agrarian sphere.
The lecturers of Department teach 18 disciplines for full-time and external students of Agronomy, Land Managing and qualification level of “Bachelor” and “Master”. The Department actively cooperates with the Institute of Postgraduates Studies and also with separate structural subunits of Lviv National Agrarian University (colleges, technical schools).
Basic courses: Ecology with “Geomorphology”, “Soil Science”, “Agrochemistry”, “Programming of crops”, “Fertilization system of crops”, “Farming”, “Agrochemical service of agricultural formations”, “Efficient usage and protection of soils”, “Higher education and Bologna Process”.
Educational level , educational-methodological work is supported by open educational process, visiting each other’s lectures, laboratory and practical classes, defenses of course papers (projects) in the presence of special committee, study and introduction of the advanced experience according to the credit-module system under demands of Bologna Declaration.
At the Department educational-methodological complexes or all disciplines are opened, they have typical working program, methodological recommendations for laboratory and practical classes, course papers (projects), independent work management, questions for self-control, tests or separate topics and module, control questions for final module control and rector’s control works.
The Department gives lectures with the contribution of the Information Technology Department and elaborates: 14 controlling (“Geology with Geomorphology” and “Soil Studies”) and 8 rated ( “Programming of crops” ) computer programs.
Every lecturer of the Department supervises a process of course paper writing . Every year state Examination Board recommends for implementation presentation of 7-10 diploma papers; 2-3 graduate students are recommended for entering the postgraduate study.
Research work
The Department staff participates in the of the faculty complex scientific theme Agrotechnology and Ecology on “Llaboration of scientifically reasonable control system over the plant-growing and farming product potential on the basis of ecologically stabilizing measures on the soil protection in the agroclimatic zones of the western region of Ukraine”. In addition, the Department carries research work on “Elaboration of agrochemical and agroecological bases of the culture fertilizing systems in the grain and cultivated crop rotation of western forest-steppe of Ukraine”. Today the Department scientists are fruitfully working or the topical problems of soil fertility preservation and soil protection, in particular that of erosive danger territories, effective use of the damaged lands and soils of technogenic origin; agrochemical soil contamination , development of the ecologically safe and economically expedient fertilizing systems, plant-growing products quality evaluation, application of new types mineral and organically mineral fertilizers, issues of crop rational fertilizing.
The Department representatives have defended three doctoral (Hilis M.B., Krylova H.I., Panas R.N.) and 33 candidate theses, prepared and published 7 monographs, 6 manuals, over 760 scientific and scientifically-methodical articles.
Within the last two years the Department scientists have gained two approvals on the useful models:
- Winter wheat fertilizing method in the short crop rotation”.
- Sugar beet fertilizing method in the short crop rotation”.
There are student scientific clubs “Agrochemist”, and “Farmer” with the annual participation of 40-50 second-fifth yeas students and full-time masters. The basic direction of students researches is the study of new forms of mineral fertilizers and plant growth regulators; determination of the efficiency of various organic and mineral fertilizer norms application for the separate agricultural crops, determination of the influence of fertilizers on the harvest and quality of agricultural products and agrochemical soil indexes; study of different soil types agricultural characteristics and elaboration of its improvement measures, calculation of the organic and mineral fertilizers requirements for the crop rotation of a particular farm.
Student scientific work
The results of student scientific work researches are published in the scientific collections of the University and other 
higher educational establishments. The students report on the scientific conferences of University, and every year four or five best students participate in all-Ukrainian and international scientific conferences. The materials of their researches are used by students in their course papers, bachelor’s and master’s researches.
There is a post-graduate course in “Agro-chemistry” at the Department. There are 6 post-graduate students: Zasiekin N., Lesiv V., Hrytsuliak H., Lactionov V., Panas M., Savytska Kh.
Recently the Department has carried the scientific researches according to the order of Ministry of Agrarian Policy of Ukraine, Ministry of Industrial Policy of Ukraine, other organizations and private agrarian manufactures of different property forms as to the agrochemical inspection of different soil types and elaboration of scientific recommendations for their effective agricultural use.
Lecturers, post-graduate students and students conduct the field researches on the base of the long-term stationary experience of the Department that started in 1984 at educational and scientifically-experimental center of Lviv National Agrarian University, and also under the production conditions, while laboratory research is carried in the scientifically-experimental agrochemical laboratory that functions by the Department.
International cooperation
The Department participates in the international scientific researches together with the agricultural chemistry and soil science departments of Szczecin Academy of Agriculture, keeps scientific connections with the agrarian colleges by the University of Saskatchewan (city of Saskatoon, Canada). It is in the framework of international cooperation between Lviv National Agrarian University and Pennsylvanian agrarian college (the USA), agrarian college of the state of lowa. The Department supports close connections with the scientific institutions and higher educational establishments of Ukraine, as well as Russia, Poland, Belarus, Germany, Syria, Canada and the USA.
Innovative activity
The Department also has the branches of research in Lviv state project and technological center of soil fertility and product quality protection (“Obclerzhrodyuchist”) (Regional State Fertility); of the Department of agricultural chemistry, agriculture and soil fertility recreation by the Institute of Agriculture and stock-raising of Western Ukraine of Ukrainian Academy of Agrarian sciences; of Polissiya experimental station of Nation Scientific Centre of the Institute of Soil Sciences and Agricultural Chemistry named after O.N. Sokolovskyi; of educational and scientifically-experimental center of Lviv National Agrarian University; of private agrarian enterprise: Horutska “agrofirm, Lesiv farm of Lviv region, agrofirm “Camomile” of Volyn region.
The Department representatives are regular participants of international, national and regional scientific and practical conferences, seminars, exhibitions.
There is the centre of advanced experience – “Rational agricultural etc. Crops fertilizing systems” – established by the Department. The Department carries advisory activity and provides consulting services, namely:
- Carries out the agrochemical analyses of soils and determines the state of their efficient fertility.
- Conducts leaf and tissue diagnosis of agrocultural crops mineral feeding.
- Provides scientific recommendations on the effective use of organic and mineral fertilizers for the field and fodder crops.
- Calculates the fertilizing requirement for the planned harvest and develops the fertilizing systems of agricultural crops in crop rotations and economy.
- Carries the harvest programming and prognostification of the basis agricultural crops under the specific soil and climatic conditions.
- Develops the measures on the soil and vegetative covering fertility protection.
- Provides consulting on the effective use of technogenic soil.
- Gives recommendations on fertilizing application of organic materials and maintenance of self-supporting balance of humus in soil.
- Develops recommendations on the sour soils revival under the conditions of chemical ameliorants and fertilizers deficiency.
- Conducts complex soil inspections and carries the expert evaluation of soil suitability for growing of ecologically clean agricultural products with the compiling of the ecological map of soil cover.
Contacts:
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