Source: https://jugti.com/kosh/words/tudi/ ਤ [Kosh](https://jugti.com/kosh/)/[Words](https://jugti.com/kosh/words/)/Noun Word # ਤੂੜੀ tudi, also written toori Say it**TOO-ree, two syllables, the t soft**Type**Noun** In short Tudi (ਤੂੜੀ), also written toori, is chopped wheat straw, the dry fodder stored after the wheat harvest and fed to cattle and buffaloes all year. Mixed with green pathhe, it forms the dry half of the daily ration on Punjab farms and in cow shelters. ## How it's used 1. 1ਵਾਢੀ ਤੋਂ ਬਾਅਦ ਤੂੜੀ ਸਾਂਭ ਕੇ ਰੱਖ ਲਈ੤After the harvest, we stored the tudi away. _storing for the year_ 2. 2ਪਸ਼ੂਆਂ ਨੂੰ ਤੂੜੀ ਅਤੇ ਪੱਠੇ ਮਿਲਾ ਕੇ ਪਾਓ੤Feed the cattle tudi mixed with green fodder. _the mixed ration_ 3. 3ਇਸ ਸਾਲ ਤੂੜੀ ਦਾ ਭਾਅ ਡਿੱਗ ਗਿਆ ਹੈ੤This year the price of tudi has fallen. _the swinging market_ Show 2 more examples 1. 4ਤੂੜੀ ਮੀਂਹ ਤੋਂ ਬਚਾ ਕੇ ਰੱਖਣੀ ਪੈਂਦੀ ਹੈ੤Tudi has to be kept safe from the rain. _dry storage_ 2. 5ਗਊਸ਼ਾਲਾ ਲਈ ਦੋ ਟਰਾਲੀਆਂ ਤੂੜੀ ਲਿਆਂਦੀ੤We brought two trolley loads of tudi for the cow shelter. _feeding the gaushala_ ਪੰਜਾਬੀ ਵਿੱਚ ਅਰਥ ਤੂੜੀ ਦਾ ਅਰਥ ਹੈ: ਕਣਕ ਦੀ ਕੁਤਰੀ ਹੋਈ ਸੁੱਕੀ ਪਰਾਲੀ, ਜੋ ਪਸ਼ੂਆਂ ਦਾ ਚਾਰਾ ਬਣਦੀ ਹੈ੤ ਵਾਢੀ ਤੋਂ ਬਾਅਦ ਕਿਸਾਨ ਤੂੜੀ ਸਾਂਭ ਕੇ ਰੱਖਦਾ ਹੈ ਤਾਂ ਜੋ ਸਾਰਾ ਸਾਲ ਪਸ਼ੂਆਂ ਨੂੰ ਚਾਰਾ ਮਿਲਦਾ ਰਹੇ੤ ਤੂੜੀ ਆਮ ਤੌਰ ਤੇ ਹਰੇ ਪੱਠਿਆਂ ਨਾਲ ਮਿਲਾ ਕੇ ਪਾਈ ਜਾਂਦੀ ਹੈ੤ Tudi (ਤੂੜੀ), also written toori, is the Punjabi word for chopped wheat straw, the dry fodder stored after the wheat harvest and fed to cattle and buffaloes through the year. Once the grain is threshed out, the golden straw that remains is not waste. Chopped fine, it becomes tudi. ## What does tudi mean in Punjabi? The word names the finished fodder, not the standing crop. Wheat straw left after the harvest is gathered and chopped into short pieces, traditionally by hand and now usually by machine, and that chopped straw is tudi. It is the dry half of the village ration: where pathhe are the fresh greens cut every morning, tudi is the stored dry feed that waits in the shed in every season, ready whenever the animals are fed. ## How is tudi made and fed? After the wheat is harvested and threshed, the straw is run through a chaff cutter or a straw machine and stored under cover, in a shed or a covered stack, safe from rain. At feeding time it is mixed with green pathhe and sometimes with oil cake, because chopped straw is bulky dry roughage and animals digest it better in a mixed ration, as Punjab's farm experts point out. Tudi is also a second income from the same field: one Bathinda grower quoted in a 2025 report put his yield at about twenty quintals of toori from a single acre of wheat, sold on to dairy owners and traders. ## Why does the price of tudi swing so much? Tudi prices swing sharply, and both directions hurt someone. In 2025 Punjab's wheat growers watched toori rates fall to between 130 and 180 rupees a quintal, against 500 rupees the year before, as dairies shifted to silage and paddy straw and stocks lay unsold; PAU's wheat experts warned that unsold tudi could push farmers back towards burning field residue. In another season, cow shelters have protested in the opposite direction, saying mills, cardboard factories and brick kilns bought up so much straw that gaushalas could not get tudi for their cattle at any fair price. ## Related words [ਪੱਠੇpathhegreen fodder: the fresh leafy crops cut daily and fed to cattle and buffaloes](https://jugti.com/kosh/words/pathhe/)[ਕਣਕkanakWheat; Punjab's staple grain](https://jugti.com/kosh/words/kanak/)[ਪਰਾਲੀparaliPaddy straw left in the fields after harvest](https://jugti.com/kosh/words/parali/)[ਖੇਤੀ ਤੇ ਪਿੰਡ ਦੇ ਸ਼ਬਦKheti te Pind de ShabdPunjabi farming words: crops, fodder, tools, land and village life in Gurmukhi, with meanings](https://jugti.com/kosh/words/punjabi-farming-words/) Sources (2) 1. [Punjab farmers worried as wheat straw prices dip amid lack of demand, AgriInsite (Hindustan Times)](https://agriinsite.com/punjab-farmers-worried-as-wheat-straw-prices-dip-amid-lack-of-demand/) 2. [Punjab Gaushala Mahasangh seeks availability of wheat dry fodder (tudi) for cattle, India ePost](https://indiaepost.com/index.php/2026/05/04/punjab-gaushala-mahasangh-seeks-to-ban-storage-of-wheat-dry-fodder-tudi-while-demanding-to-ensure-availability-of-dry-fodder-for-cattle-heads-in-state/) [Report a correction](https://jugti.com/corrections/) **Jugti is free and independent.** Reader support keeps the Kosh growing. 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