The study findings showed that some of the KM practices are already practiced in the communities to enhance the management of IK. However, these existing KM practices need to be strengthened for IK to be useful for agricultural development. The utilisation of the SECI model (Nonaka Takeuchi 1995) in the current study showed that farming knowledge is continuously created through the conversion of tacit knowledge into explicit knowledge (and vice versa) despite its weaknesses. The research findings revealed that the knowledge creation theory can partially be applied to manage the IK of the local communities. Apart from socialisation process, the findings showed that other sub-processes in Nonaka and Takeuchi's (1995) knowledge creation model were partially fulfilled in the current study, which included externalisation, combination and internalisation. The present study established that the shared context or ba as proposed by Nonaka, Toyama and Konno's (2000) knowledge creation model was also partially fulfilled in enabling farmers to create, share and apply knowledge for farming purposes in the surveyed c ommunities. All four types of ba were practiced by the local communities to share knowledge for farming purposes, but systematic and exercising ba were partially fulfilled. The findings showed that IK is mainly tacit and oral in nature and thus physical communication is very important in enabling the creation and sharing of knowledge as compared to virtual communication; that is why externalisation, combination stages and systematic ba were partially fulfilled. Farmers mainly internalised knowledge gained from tacit sources of knowledge as compared to explicit formats (i.e. ICTs and print formats) and thus the internalisation stage and exercising ba were partially fulfilled. On the whole, with adequate and appropriate resources, the Nonaka's theory can be used to manage the knowledge of local communities. Thus, the communities have to be placed within a knowledge-creating setting, which is one that continuously creates knowledge, manages, distributes and shares within and outside its boundaries and integrates it with new agricultural technologies, innovations and knowledge.