[2] By the late 1940s, he started working with farmers in Kheda district, under the guidance of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel,[1] and after setting up the Kaira District Co-operative Milk Producer's Union in 1946[1] under his chairmanship, he hired Verghese Kurien[1] in 1950, who was instrumental in developing the technical and marketing strategies of the Union which was eventually called Amul.

[1] He used this fund to start a charitable trust and NGO, named the Tribhuvandas Foundation, to work on women and child health in the Kheda district of Gujarat.

[1] He handed over the chairmanship to Verghese Kurien, when the organization started to grow quickly, after receiving funds from foreign grant[1] s. The former chairperson of the National Dairy Development Board, Amrita Patel remarked in her opening address at an event at the Institute of Rural Management Anand about the Tribhuvandas Foundation saying "[Tribhuvandas Foundation] works in over 600 villages in the state of Gujarat in the field of maternal and infant care.

In the days before his death on June 3, 1994, thousands of farmers from all over Kaira visited him, assuring him that the movement started in 1946 would be continued.

More incidents and details about Patel's life have not been reported in English, partly due to the lack of translation from the native Gujarati language.