The sea has encroached eight kilometres into the land, according to Kakinada’s older generation. New technologies like geo tubes were able to arrest erosion. However, the structures themselves have become denuded over time.

https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/climate-change/kakinada-fishers-grapple-with-pollution-climate-change-and-unemployment-67383

While official sources in the agriculture department said that between 2014 and 2019, the actual number of suicides is 1,160, data provided by the Union agriculture minister says that between 2014 and 2016, there were 2,352 suicides.

https://thewire.in/rights/andhra-pradesh-farm-suicides-compensation

With rivers like Krishna, Godavari, Tungabhadra and Penna and a coast line of 974 kilometres the state is rich in sand resources. The previous TDP regime had introduced a free sand policy, which though was billed pro-poor is said to have boosted the mining mafia.

https://www.downtoearth.org.in/news/mining/andhra-pradesh-unveils-new-sand-policy-66550