Damak, Jan. 2: Dr. Kapil Mani Mishra, a research scientist who is currently engaged in various research works in Damak, Jhapa District, has developed a new technology under which dry hay which has low nutrition content could be refurbished and turned green.

Earlier, Mr. Mishra had developed an anti-venom for snake bite from the extracts of a certain kind of herbal plant found in Nepal while he was affiliated to the American Research Methodology International.

According to Mr. Mishra, dry hay, which is widely used as cattle feed, has a nutrition content ranging from 6-10 per cent only. He says the nutritional level can be raised considerably and the hay attains green pigmentation of about 32-40 per cent after the application of the u.T.S. (urea treatment of straw) process devised by him.

Mr. Mishra also said that cattle are also found to prefer the straw prepared through this process.

Urea and water are required for the treatment and the straw has to be fermented inside a room or a pit to prepare the straw in this way.

This method of straw preparation is found to be useful in the context of Nepal.