Various forms of Biomass energy can be utilized as a useful energy, which has implications on various sectors of
environment, agriculture and rural development. In India, huge population is dependent on biomass for domestic cooking and heating purposes. More than two-third of the entire population of India lives in rural areas with one-fourth of the same lying below the poverty line (NSS, 2008). Forests, agriculture, and wastes are the three major sources
from which, huge amount of biomass feedstocks are generated (Table 1). There are two major class of biomass; woody and non woody. The estimated potential amount of non-woody and non-fodder biomass, which is prospective for energy in India was estimated to be 325 Mt (472 PJ) in 1996–97, and the anticipated value for 2010 is 450 M (656 PJ) as shown in the Table 2 (Ravindranath et al., 2005). The estimated power generation potentials of renewable energy sources in India have been outlined in Table 3 (Renewable energy statistics, 2005). The power generation potential of biomass is considerably high in the world including greater in the India.