various domestic production supports and quantitative restrictions on exports are prominent elements of continuing disarray in agriculture in India and Pakistan. Despite significant import and export liberalization, various distortionary domestic production supports are a continuing feature of the agricultural landscape in Bangladesh and Sri Lanka as well. To be effective, planning for freeing agriculture should involve simultaneous reforms of import and export regimes and domestic production support mechanisms. It is unrealistic to assume that reforms in the import trade regime will automatically trigger reforms in other areas. This is because, as they have evolved over a long period of time mostly as a political response to various socio-political forces, these various elements of the incentive structure are inexorably interlinked