Summing up, it may be stated that paddy straw which suffers from certain inherent disadvantages can be improved by treatment with dilute alkali solution. This procedure is, however, applicable in places where water is available in abundance and the animals to be fed are one hundred or above.
Individual livestock owners could improve straw, though not to the same extent as with alkali treatment, by washing it with water.
In places where water is in scarcity, the harmful effects of paddy straw could be minimized by soaking it in water and the waste water could be used after adding 0.5 per cent lime.