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Adoption of technology is faster with resourceful farmers in the more productive and homogenous core areas with irrigation or assured rainfall. However, the pace of adoption is slower with the resource-poor farmers in less productive and diverse hinterlands. A decentralized research strategy is needed to develop technology suitable to diverse conditions of hinterlands. Use of farmers’ indigenous knowledge and their involvement in developing and testing of technology to suit local conditions is essential. Hence, farmer-participatory on-farm research constitutes the foundation for technology adoption. Environmental factors influence adoption, but are beyond our control. Therefore, the infrastructure for adoption will be comprised of technological, institutional, socioeconomic, and human factors. Case studies from Bangladesh are given to illustrate the beneficial effects of some of the infrastructural support systems on technology adoption.
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Gowda, C.L.L., Faris, D.G., Maniruzzaman, A.F.M. (1994). Infrastructural support to promote farmer adoption of improved technologies. In: Muehlbauer, F.J., Kaiser, W.J. (eds) Expanding the Production and Use of Cool Season Food Legumes. Current Plant Science and Biotechnology in Agriculture, vol 19. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0798-3_30
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