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Globally the arable land resources are getting degraded due to climate change-driven factors including soil salinization and depleted water resources. It has become important to develop strategies to bring the coastal zones and degraded land resource into productive areas of cultivation. Salinity is one of the abiotic stresses which affects plant productivity, and hence attempts are being made to improve tolerant crops. Among different options for repurposing, deployment of highly productive halophytes for desalination is a viable and economic method. Halophytes have an innate ability to adopt to saline ecosystem through different mechanisms of salt exclusion or accumulation. Halophytic cash crops can be domesticated through conventional breeding programs and thus improve their productivity and salt tolerance. Several halophytes and salt tolerant crops have been successfully exploited for desalination …