Hanoi (VNA), March 13 -- Although Vietnam holds huge potential to boost rice export in 2024 as the world is forecast to face a shortage of about 5 million tonnes of the grain, limitations in linkage chain must be tackled for the industry to move forward.

According to Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Phung Duc Tien, a stronger linkage chain will enable risk sharing and harmonised benefits, helping the rice sector develop sustainably.

Production linkage has an important role to play in agricultural production since it will help prevent the situation that bumper crops drag down rice prices.

Since the rice linkage remains weak, the agricultural ministry has penned a project to develop rice production chain, with the par...