author(s)
Ekramul Hoque, TK Dutta, A Chatterjee and D Satapathy

abstract
The present study was carried out with the primary objective to evaluate nutrients content and keeping quality of urea treated straw added with different levels of molasses. Paddy straw was treated with 4% urea and molasses levels were 0.0, 2.5, 5.0, 7.5 and 10.0% for treatments A, B, C, D and E, respectively. Total carbohydrate content and ether extract content of straw improved from treatment A to treatment E. However, reverse pattern was observed in case of NDF, ADF, Cellulose, hemicellulose, lignin, ash. Treatment E was also a good source of calcium (3.17%), phosphorus (2.17%), copper (7.73 mg/kg) and Iron (243.33 mg/kg). Therefore, treatment E was selected as best combination of urea- molasses treatment based on physical character and chemical composition.