Burning biomass poses a severe concern and is currently a hot topic. In India, about 85–90% of biomass is burned in the field. Burning agricultural crop residue also contributes to the release of various pollutants that are harmful to human health. It also has a negative effect on the many ecosystem services, including those that are regulating, providing, sustaining, and cultural. It impacts pollinators, reduces soil fertility, changes soil structure, and influences how naturally pests and diseases are controlled. It lessens nematode, microbe, earthworm, insect, and pathogen biodiversity. Burning biomass removes nutrients, which has a significant impact on the ecology. Biomass burning removed around 2400, 35, 3.2, 21 and 2.7 kg of carbon, nitrogen, phosphorous, potassium, and sulphur from the soil. The cost to add those nutrients back to the soil using the replacement cost technique is Rs. 30834. The economic benefits of biomass include its usage as a source of energy, biofuel, compost, gasification, and bio-methanation. The effects of burning biomass and the uses of biomass must be understood by all parties involved.