For sustainable agricultural production and soil health, plant nutrients are vital for crop growth, and their application needs to be carefully balanced. The availability of nutrients in the soil is shaped by both management practices and the soil’s physico-chemical properties. High concentrations of salt ions, such as calcium (Ca), sodium (Na), and chloride (Cl), along with their associated carbonate and bicarbonate salts, can limit the availability of essential plant nutrients. The issue of excessive salt in soil and water is greatly aggravated in arid and semi-arid regions and has impacted on 6.74 million hectares (Mha) of Indian land. Sodic areas predominate on around 3.77 Mha of the salt-affected Indian soils, causing an annual loss of farm production of 11.2 million tonnes (mt) estimated at US$ 2.3 billion. Salt ions hinder mineralization in saline/alkaline soils and reduce microbial diversity and population. According to studies, crop plants have a restricted ability to absorb nutrients under saline-sodic soils. A sustainable way to treat salt-affected soils is to use halophytes, which are plants that are naturally suited to saline conditions. They can absorb and sequester excess salts because of their innate salt tolerance, which lowers soil salinity and increases land production. In addition to reducing soil salinity, halophytes for saline soil restoration are an economical and ecologically sound method that also has other advantages. Development of genetic salt tolerant crop varieties is one of the potential ways for escaping the salt toxicity issues. However, some of the fern and shrubs are capable to survive in the saline soil that can be adopted for sustaining the crop production in the salt affected regions.