What does salinity do to agricultural crops?
What we are doing essentially is making the plant suffer a drought. The salt has an osmotic effect. By osmotic, I mean it dries out the water in terms of the plant’s ability to extract it. Now the plant essentially suffers a drought under salting. Also the excess amount of sodium causes an imbalance in the other nutrients in the plant needs such that the plant suffers nutrient deficiency as well.
