Includes bibiliographical references. APO Symposium on Agricultural Output and Input Pricing. (1990). Agricultural output and input pricing: Report on APO Symposium on Agricultural Output and Input Pricing (SYP/VI/88) held in Malaysia in 1988. Tokyo: Asian Productivity Organization.

Section I: Summary of findings -- Section II: Regional survey report; 1. Major issues of pricing policies in the Asian countries by Mitsugi Kamiya; 2. Trends in input and output prices and effects of pricing policy in APO member countries by Katsuhiro Ota -- Section III: Other symposium papers; 1. Trends in domestic terms of trade between agriculture and non-agriculture in Malaysia by Abdul Aziz Abdul Rahman; 2. Domestic terms of trade between agriculture and non-agriculture in Asian countries by Raisuddin Ahmed; 3. Effects of agricultural price policies by Raisuddin Ahmed; 4. Agricultural price policy in Asia: issues and areas of reforms by Ifzal Ali; 5. Agricultural price policies in Japan by Hiroshi Mori -- Section IV: Country reports; 1. Republic of China by Wen-fu Hsu; 2. India by D. S. Sidhu and J. S. Sidhu ; 3. Indonesia by Pardina Pudiastuti; 4. Japan by H. Kobayashi; 5. Republic of Korea by Dong Hi Kim; 6. Malaysia by Abul Hadi Othman; 7. Nepal by Y. D. Panta; 88. Pakistan by Abdul Salam; 9. Philippines by Generoso G. de Guzman; 10. Sri Lanka by Athula Chandrasiri; 11. Thailand by Boonkerd Budhaka -- Section V: Appendices

"The symposium ws a follow-up project to the regional survey on the same subject conducted in 1987 in 11 member countries. Its main objective was to discuss the results of the survey, as well as resource papers on special topics presented by selected experts. More specifically, the symposium deliberated on the pricing policy mechanisms for major agricultural products and farm inputs, major problems and effects of various agricultural price and other support policies, and measures to improve the general pricing policy environment in member countries and six resource speakers." -From the book