Part of India's growing energy needs can be met by using biomass residues generated from agricultural activities and by growing energy plantations in wastelands. The use of this biomass does not violate any climate or sustainability ethics and could generate rural employment. Due to any type of energy crisis, if a large-scale demand for biomass developed, instead of waste biomass, plants currently used as fodder and other inputs used in rural industries could be diverted. The existence of an adequate logistics network is mandatory to meet any long-term and large-scale biomass needs and also to replace the unsustainable use of wood by the rural population. By creating a structure of biomass cooperatives for collection, densification, transportation and distribution, the energy potential of biomass could be harnessed and used efficiently. In this article, a two-stage hub and speak model for biomass harvesting, briquetting and utilization is proposed. Even without any demand from large-scale energy production facilities, biomass cooperatives could function effectively by meeting the needs of existing rural industries and household needs. Biomass briquetting cooperatives will serve as an intermediate transitional step to transition to large-scale sustainable utilization of biomass energy by Indian agriculture.1. INTRODUCTION India is an agrarian economy to this day. About 70% of its population lives in villages, agriculture is their main activity, they are poor and lack basic services such as electricity[1]. Rural people depend on firewood and other biomass for their domestic energy needs and know that it is inconvenient but it is the cheapest option and most of the time it is free [2]. Although the country's population is growing, the cultivated area is decreasing. Due to migration to cities there is labor shortage in villages and labour-intensive crops are neglected [3]. So there is a shortage of food production and many items are imported, especially legumes [4] and edible oil. The country is growing thanks to the development of services and manufacturing industries, but the poverty reduction rate is still very slow and regional disparity is high[5]. The rural poor lack access to education and technical skills, and the government is unable to provide enough jobs for people who abandon agriculture. Even though people are ready to work in industries due to the mismatch between supply and demand of skills, most of the rural poor cannot be redistributed into newly developed industries.