The HSAP, wishing to honour its outstanding members and certain foreign scientists for their great contributions to the wider zootechnic field, bestows special awards during some of its meetings and symposia. In chronological order are the following award recipients:

K. Ananiadis, Agriculturist-Hydrobiologist (1995), P. Kalaissakis, Professor Emeritus, Agricultural Univ. Athens (1995), N.P. Zervas, Professor Emeritus, Aristotle Univ. Thessaloniki (1996), B. Kyriafinis, Agriculturist-Animal Specialist (1996), J. Labussiere, Professor Emeritus, Univ. Rennes, France (1998), P. Maniatis, Agriculturist-Animal Specialist (1998), G. Michos, Agriculturist-Animal Specialist-Lawyer (1998), G. Kitsopanidis, Professor Emeritus, Aristotle Univ. Thessaloniki (1999), J. Boyazoglu, Agriculturist-Animal Specialist, Vice-Pres. EAAP, General Secretary WAAP (2000), D. Tsiaousis, Agriculturist-Animal Specialist (2001), A. Mantzios, Agriculturist-Animal Specialist, Researcher of National Agricultural Research Foundation (2003), V. Pappas, Agriculturist-Animal Specialist, Director of the Animal Genetic Improvement Centre of Karditsa, Greece (2003), in memory of T. Papademetriou, Assist. Professor of the Agricultural University of Athens (2003), Evangelos Kliafas, Agriculturist - Animal Specialist,  Panayiotis Tetoros, Agriculturist - Animal Specialist (2004) and G. Papadopoulos, Professor Emeritus Agricultural Univ. Athens (2005).

Parallel to the above, the HSAP confers honorary distinctions, accompanied by symbolic amounts of money, on top graduate students of the animal production departments of the Agricultural University of Athens and the Agricultural Faculty of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.