Abstract: The research has presently been used as a tool for development of agricultural communities in rural areas. Type of the research is a community based action research. However, this alternative type of the research is not yet well known and practiced and is not widely tough in the universities. Therefore most of the new generation researchers lack of skill and knowledge on community research because while in school they were tough mainly in conventional research procedure. This research was conducted to aim at elucidating competency of the young community researchers, formulating training curriculum according to the competency in order to develop the new generation of community researchers from different universities in the Northeast region of Thailand. This expected training was aimed to enable them to use community research as a tool to develop agricultural community in the rural area. The research process was divided into 2 phases; identifying competency among the expert and formulating a training curriculum to develop competency of new community researchers according to the identified competency by the experts. Qualitative research approach was employed, 12 group discussions with expert were conducted and collected data were subjected for content analysis and conclusion. The research results found that identified competency could be divided into two sets; core competency which consisted of six competencies and technical competency which also consisted of six competencies. Training curriculum was formulated according to the identified competency was divided into four content sets; basic knowledge on community research, research project proposal development, techniques and tools for data collection and analysis and synthesis of the data and report writing of community research, respectively. The formulated curriculum will be trialed and evaluated in future.