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In this research, Cement composites have become an inevitable part of construction industry. Concrete is the most utilized material on earth next to the water. With the advent of urbanization and increase in infrastructure activities, consumption of cement concrete has escalated. The production process of one ton of cement emits about 0.7 tons of carbon dioxide into atmosphere. The emitted carbon dioxide will lead to the greenhouse effect causing global warming. This turns affect the rainfall pattern, melting ice caps, and rise in sea levels. Hence there is a need to mitigate the use of cement and make development sustainable. The entire construction world is in search of a suitable and effective the waste product that would considerably minimize the use of cement and ultimately reduces the construction cost. Few of such products have been identified like eucalyptus ash and agave ash etc. Thereby, the mechanical properties such as compressive strength, split-tensile strength were determined for M25 grade concrete and by varying percentage of ash content from 10%, 15% and 20% by Cement is replaced by EUCALYPTUS ASH AND AGAVE ASH. Here the 10% of cement is replaced with 7.5% of eucalyptus ash and 2.5% agave ash. Similarly, in the next 15% and 30% of sement was replaced. The mechanical properties such as compressive strength with % ashes were compared with conventional concrete properties of M25 grade. From the results it is observed that increasing % of ash in concrete increases the compressive strength of concrete.