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Due to the high cost of petroleum products and the environmental effects of synthetic plastics, it has to be replaced by biopolymers because they are potentially strong and have a degrading capacity in nature. The alternative for plastic could be polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs), polyhydroxybutrate (PHBs) and polylactic acid (PLAs). They are abundant in starch and sugar industrial agro waste which helps to produce biopolymers at low cost which are then successfully converted into PHAs, PHBs, and PLAs. This conversion is mediated by the microbial isolates or genetically modified microbes by converting microbial biomass into biopolymers and optimizing the conditions for the fermentation of sugar obtained from the agro-industries. Easily available starch and sugar industrial agro wastes contain nutritional value. So, it is being used as the substrate for microbial growth. Nowadays the research aspects were critically increased on microbial biopolymer and its production. In this paper, the different aspects of biopolymer production and the challenges involved in overcoming the problems are being reviewed.