Abstract: With the development of economy and population, the environmental pollution, especially water pollution, is becoming more and more serious.This poses a threat to aquatic life and human health.Agricultural solid waste has served as a high potential alternative kind of materials for conventional sorbents because of the low cost, high adsorption capacity, easy modification and simple operation.In this paper, when agricultural solid waste was used as adsorbent, the properties of agricultural waste, adsorption mechanism, influencing factors and adsorption performance of PAHs and OPs in water environment were reviewed.The applications of agricultural wastes as adsorbents were also prospected.