Since the plant is a halophytic coastline species which grows in saltwater, it can be irrigated with seawater, making it a potential crop for landscapes that can support few other crop plants.[1][2] The plants can also be watered with high-salt drainage water, such as the effluent from farmland in California's Central Valley.[11] Fields of the plant have been grown in wastewater from aquaculture farms in Eritrea and harvested for animal feed.[4]