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The biomass production and uses come from the first human activities to survive the inhospitable environment. With the agriculture development, its production reached out huge quantities, generating wealth associated with environmental issues, which demands scientific knowledge and technologies of control and treatment to reduce negative impacts by means the modern sustainable vision. Nowadays, the world crop production is in the order of 7.26 Gtonnes of total production with a generation of 140 Gtonnes of dry biomass waste. This huge amount of residues creates an environmental problem that demands strategies and technologies for their treatment in order to promote economic value and social development, reducing negative impacts on the environment. This chapter presents an outlook of the agricultural biomass production and their waste and residues generated with a worldwide distribution and availability.
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Vaz Jr., S. (2020). Introduction. In: Treatment of Agroindustrial Biomass Residues. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58850-2_1
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