Pesticides released from agricultural practices are an important class of pollutants due to their reported toxicity even at trace levels. Therefore, pesticides removal is an increasing concern. Among various treatment methods, adsorption is supposed as the best one due to its inexpensiveness, universal nature and ease of operation. This review highlights and provides an overview of the use of cheap and non-pollutant materials as an viable alternative for pesticide and their metabolite adsorption process and removal technology. However, there is a lack of data on field scale application for testing of adsorption units using single biosorbents and their combinations to recover pesticides from soil-water system. This work describes a global assessment of the equilibrium modeling of biosorption processes as well as the structural, chemical and morphological modification and activation of biosorbents.