Organic farming is environmentally friendly and at the same time maintains the soil fertility and its integrity (Kassa Teka et al., 2010). This study was assess awareness and practice of local farmers, in the case of Debre work town surrounding rural Kebeles. Questionnaires, interviews and field experiment were used to gather necessary information. The researcher took 384 sample respondents from six kebeles; the sampling method applied was simple random and purposive sampling. The data analysis was conducted through statistical techniques such as descriptive statistics and qualitative techniques. In this study all the determinant factors age (AOR=14.492, 3.884-54.075), family size (AOR=13.642, 1.602, 11.297), shortage of input (AOR=2.700, 3.098-6594), type of fertilizer preferred (AOR=2.602, 2.11-7.064), size of pit (AOR=2.456, 2.045-8.980), and knowledge on composting (AOR=1.358, 2.135-5.683) were significantly (P