“…That may be because rice is comparatively more sensitive to soil salinity than wheat (Grattan et al, 2002). Improvement in crop performance with the adoption of SSD technology was also reported from India (Datta et al, 2004;Karegoudar et al, 2022;Kumar et al, 2020;Raju et al, 2016;Ritzema et al, 2008); Bangladesh (Islam et al, 2022); Pakistan (Azhar & Masood, 2011;Ghumman et al, 2011); Iran (Talukolaee et al, 2016); Egypt (Abdel-mageed & El-Hazek, 2013;El-Mowelhi et al, 1988;Sallam, 2017;Muhammad et al, 2021) and China (Feng et al, 2017;Yang et al, 2021).…”