WHAT DOES BOAT DO? As the charity raff les a tractor, Joseph Lewis finds out where the money goes

摘要

This is the third year that T&M has supported the Bicton Overseas Agricultural Trust (BOAT) with its annual tractor raffle. But the real supporters, of course, are the thousands of readers, and others, who dig in their pockets each year to buy a ticket. And they may wonder "What does BOAT actually do?" The bald facts are that since its formation in 1991 BOAT has been "training the trainers" in underdeveloped countries and more than 100 of them have been educated in agricultural and management techniques that they have then gone home to share with their countrymen.