Lilija Degola Academic position Associate Professor / Leading researcer Dr.agr. Field of research 4. Development and adaptation of technologies for obtaining high-value agricultural and forest products, as well as in veterinary medicine E-mail lilija.degola@lbtu.lv Obtained doctoral degree in agriculture, sub-division livestock at Latvia University of Life sciences and technologies on 2001. She is an active senior researcher at the Institute of Animal Sciences in the field of pig production and animal nutrition.Scientific research is about feeding various feedstuffs to pigs and their effects on pig growth, production quality, and climate.She is the author or co-author of 13 peer-reviewed publications indexed in SCOPUS, with an h-index of 4. The most important projects (2019-2025) Insect and earthworm protein as an alternative to traditional protein sources in pig feed to achieve climate neutrality goals, 2024 , project leader New technologies and economically viable solutions for the production of local feed for pig farming: cultivation of genetically unmodified soybeans and new fodder barley varieties in Latvia, 2018 , project leader Development of economically justified feed formulations in relation to pork quality and possibilities for reducing environmental pollution, 2020 , project leader The most important publications (2019-2025) D. Kairiša, L. Paura, L. Degola, D. Jonkus, E. Aplociņa , (2023), Trends in milk yield productivity and emissions from the dairy sector in Latvia, Agronomy Research, ISSN 1406-894X L. Degola , (2022), Effects of lactobionic acid on pig growth performance and chemical composition of pork, Animals, ISSN 2076-2615 L. Degola , (2021), Effect of replacement of coated barley grain with hulless barley in diet on growth, carcass and meat quality traits of fattening pigs, Agronomy Research, ISSN 1406-894X L. Degola , (2020), Influence of local extruded soybean cake and imported soybean meal on fattening pig productivity and pork quality, Agronomy Research, ISSN 1406-894X L. Paura, L. Degola, D. Jonkus , (2019), Analysis of chemical composition in pork longissimus muscle of Latvian breed pigs, Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, ISSN 2464-8310 E. Aplociņa, L. Degola , (2019), Effect of concentrate supplementation on fattening performance and carcass composition of finished meat-goat kids, Agronomy Research, ISSN 1406-894X Membership Reviewer of manuscripts: https://www.hrpub.org/journals/jour_reviewers.php?id=04 Universal Journal of Agricultural
