The project led by Agil Adem oglu Ahmadli, an employee of the Microbiology Institute won the “IX Grant Competition for Young Scientists and Researchers” announced by the Science Development Fund under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan.
The project “Acquisition and Application of Fungal-Origin Feed Additives to Increase Animal Productivity”, carried out by a temporary creative team under the leadership of A. A. Ahmadli, includes two employees from the Microbiology Institute and two employees from the Zoology Institute as executors. It is aimed at creating scientific and practical foundations for obtaining environmentally safe bio-additives and applying the developed bio products. This will allow for improving the productivity of farm animals (both large livestock and poultry) and making more effective use of the available feed base.
As is well known, plants, as producers in the ecosystem, play an important role in the diets of both humans and animals and are crucial in fulfilling the nutrient needs of heterotrophic organisms. In this context, scientists create new high-yield plant varieties and develop more efficient cultivation technologies. However, the expected outcomes are not always achieved, and yield per sown area may decline.
At the same time, animals cannot efficiently utilize these nutrients because they are not always able to fully assimilate them. In the face of the growing world population, this is unacceptable. To address this issue, it is important to both increase the productivity of agriculturally grown plants and eliminate the factors that cause productivity loss, and finally develop scientific-methodological bases to enhance the efficiency of nutrient assimilation using bio products.
Solving the above issues significantly affects both the quantitative and qualitative indicators of the resulting animal products. Preventing such losses is of great importance for reliably supplying the country’s population with food and for sustainable national development. At the same time, it is a major task that must be addressed — and the project team intends to do just that.
