A quiet revolution is sweeping across the cotton fields of Vidarbha, notorious for its farmer suicides. The seeds — genetically modified — are being sown. ET travels to Ground Zero Kamthiwada is just another faceless village in Yavatmal district in Vidarbha, the heart of cotton country in Maharashtra, one of the many that dot the state. It is one of the 640 villages in the district that have repeatedly hit the headlines for the wrong reasons: a spate of farmer suicides. In the past one year alone, Yavatmal had seen 324 such cases, the highest in the state.