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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.