“…The countries where salt-affected soils exist at a large scale include, but are not restricted to, Australia, Bangladesh, China, Egypt, India, Iran, Iraq, Mexico, Pakistan, Syria, Turkey, the former USSR, and the United States ( Chhabra, 2022 ). In India, most states like Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra, West Bengal, and Rajasthan are struggling with the same issue ( Sharma and Singh, 2017 ; Srivastava et al, 2019a , b ). This affects most of the stages of crop development and production such as germination, plant growth, flowering, fruiting, seed setting, and yield ( Kashyap et al, 2020 ).…”