Das is a member of the Amarkanan Rural Socio-Environmental Welfare Society, a 50-member strong farmer-run company. Narendra Singh Tomar, Minister of Agriculture and Farmers ' Welfare, acknowledged their efforts. He gave them the Indian Plant Genome Saviour Community Awards of the Council of Agricultural Research, which were granted the Rs 10 lakh quote and cash prize.

Human or institutional projects were the main attempts to preserve rice varieties. This is what distinguishes the farmer-run. It is headed by Dr. Anjan Kumar Sinha of Purulia's Raghunathpur University, a botanist and an assistant professor. The Company has conserved and preserved up to this point more than 200 remaining varieties, planting them in parcels as small as an office cubicle and sharing the seed with fellow farmers to multiply them.