%0 Conference Paper %A Gowda, C L L %A Faris, D G %A Maniruzzaman, A F M %B Expanding the production and use of cool season food legumes. Proceedings of the Second International Food Legume Research Conference on pea, lentil, faba bean, chickpea, and grasspea %C Cairo, Egypt %D 1994 %F icrisat:3168 %P 504-516 %T Infrastructural support to promote farmer adoption of improved technologies. %U http://oar.icrisat.org/3168/ %X The paper considers the factors responsible for technology adoption and suggests the infrastructures needed to hasten adoption. Case studies from Bangladesh are used to illustrate the beneficial effects of some of the infrastructural support systems on technology adoption.