[Peter]

I am not personally familiar with what technologies are most effective for rice straw.

Mechanical pretreatments to break up fibres increase the digestibility of rice straw, but there may be more effective treatments available.

If you are interested in investigating further, we would start with chemical analysis of the local feedstock, then review the available options and pilot the most promising. When comparing results from studies it is important that digestion trials or BMP tests are performed in a comparable way so that you are sure improvement is really coming from the pretreatment and not differences in digestion conditions.

If you are interested in investigating options further send me an e-mail at peter.quosai@azuraassociates.com.