Tholighfa/"lliers' knowledge plays a substantial role in the process of rural development,rnin ([cllI([1 pl([lIlIillg practice, however, it is oilly passively integrated into developmentrn"Ialls. Local level studies are hardly made so far to search for the level of knowledge thatrnIhe!ftrlllers have abollt differellt devel0Plllent aspects, alld sigll ificant factors ajfecting it.rnCOlllparative ([lIal ),sis was elllployed to l(JIow the knowledge pattern of farmers found inrnIIVO Ivords. The selectioll of the woredas was based on their level of development andrnwith alld wilhollt NGO development intervention. A ccordingly, one with higherrndevelopllleill level alld havillg NGO develoPlllent intervention and the other with lowerrnde veloplII ell t level alld without NGO development intervention were selected andrncOlllpared. Based 011 this, sample household head farmers were selects and were asked byrnIIsilig opell alld objective type questiolls, believed to be useful to understand theirrnkllowledge aholll elelllentary techniques, causation af diseases agricultural practices,rnIIlIlrilioli. /illlllall ferlility control, local credit and saving institutions and marketingrnsit/taliOIIS.rnMlilliple regressioll allalyses alld focus group discussiolls were employed to filter out,rnIhose hypothesized, Ihe variable strongly sigllificant in explaining the aforementionedrn([SpeCIS offarlllers kllowledge. Focus group discussions were also carried out.rnBased on lIIulliple regression clIIalysis and results of focus group discussions congruencernis seell helIVeell Ihe level of socioeconomic development of the woredas and empiricalrn/mowledge of Ih efitrln ers. Moreo ver, the analyses revealed education level, exposure torn/lIass lIIedia, spalial lIIobililY and NGO development intervelltion to he the most relativelyrnslgnlficanl indepelldent variables, which explain ftlrll1ers' kllowledge.rnIn accordance Ivilh Ihe findings, ellcouraging ftlrmers' confidence to different sectoralrnpolicies Ihal affeci Iheir life, incorporate agricultural marketing and basic healthrnedllcalion in Ihe new extension program, grain banking to avert market risks wasrnrecollllll ended. In additioll to these, extension agenls should peliorm their intendedrnprilllarv jo", cuilural Ireatlllelit for taboos existed in knowledge about human fertilityrncon/rol and IIII/ri/iolial aspects alld incorporating significant independent variables in thern('{!/egorizatioll of develoPlllent levels of woredas for the purpose of budget allocationrnIl'ere also recollllllended