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Good afternoon. Welcome to the conference call of BrasilAgro concerning the results for Q2 2019. We will have with us Mr. André Guillaumon, CEO; and Mr. Gustavo Lopez, Administrative Officer and Investor Relations Officer. We inform that the presentation is being recorded. [Operator Instructions] Next, we will begin the Q&A session exclusively for investors and analysts when further instructions will be supplied. [Operator Instructions] The audio is being presented simultaneously via the Internet at the address www.brazil-agro.com, where the presentation is available. Before proceeding, we would like to clarify that any declaration that may be made during this conference call concerning the business perspectives of BrasilAgro, projections and operational financial goals are based on assumptions of the Company's board and also on information currently available. They involve risks and uncertainties, because they refer to future events and therefore depend on circumstances that may or may not occur. Investors should understand that general economic conditions industry conditions and other operational factors may affect the future performance of BrasilAgro and lead to results that may differ materially from those expressed in these considerations about the future. Now we would like to pass the floor to Mr. André Guillaumon, Chief Executive Officer who will begin the presentation. Please Mr. André you may proceed. André Guillaumon: Thank you. Good afternoon once again it's a pleasure to have this channel open with you to talk about our results for Q2, 2019 which has been for us in a certain way for the whole sector a very challenging year we will comment on this later. But we trust in the Company's strategy and in the solid delivery of results. I would like to go on to Page 1, the page with the highlights. In the highlights, we had in the closing for the calendar year and we ended with approximately 1,800,000 tons of sugarcane another event that we concluded finishing the planting of grains for the second time in the company. Also we planted cottonseeds in the Chaparral property and following our strategy of real estate results together with operational results. In Q1, we sold the Jatobá property and in the second the small sale, but for us very important another sale of land, farmland. Our assets in Alto Taquari, Mato Grosso and 8 million sale 8,000,103 hectors, total net revenue 370 million, net income accumulated 136.10 and adjusted EBITDA BRL153 million. These are robust numbers and surely we will give you details. You will see the combination of the Company's strategy in having results of real estate results and operational results. Now going on to page, the next page, here we have the great challenge of all the companies in this sector with Agro industry. So we had a year with a lot of volatility, a year that began with a lot of uncertainty. We'd like to stress the price of soybean is commodity that is important for many companies and also it affects the market of inputs. So a very challenging year, and I say once again I repeat once again the great objective of the Company is to be always monitoring the margin per hector which is a combination of cost and revenue from the sale of soybean. Well it is a year that brings enormous challenges. We began the year with an uncertainty. We had a good window for planting in Brazil this was. So we did very well in planting and then some uncertainties from foreign markets and also challenges in Brazil that we include in this basket of challenges for the year. I'm sure you have followed this, the great change in expectations in production in the Brazilian soybean harvest it’s a great challenge. Later on we will detail more how we are capturing the opportunities that may arise thus overcoming the challenges. There is an important impact in this commodity which is freight, the freight prices as you know there is a freight price that was made by the government. This brought a lot of uncertainty in the sector. And finally the great discussion that the war between U.S. - commercial war between U.S. and China affecting commodities, but we believe it's a challenging year. Companies are working in a very cautious way in terms of sales. So we have these uncertainties and we have some uncertainties in December in the state of Mato Grosso in January, in MAPITOBA and also in the Midwest which will add a little more pepper or discussion to the issues involving the commodities. Now going on to farmland prices we have here, we had an appreciation. We always insist on things that farmland is a safe asset. We have regions in the Midwest with appreciation prices of farmland went up 4% in the Midwest. We like to say that in this region, we will talk about a sale we made which brings a lot of robustness to our business. We believe as a company that all the structural changes that are being made in Brazil bringing more legal security or reducing interest rates. So farmland will definitely be a good business in the next few years. Now sale of properties the next page, here we detail specifically this last sale made and recorded in this quarter. We sold Alto Taquari, it's a small sale, but very important this was an asset that we had not yet - we haven't sold any part of this asset. It has sugarcane, it is producing sugarcane and this enables us to continue selling land in this property. 103 hectors acquisition price BRL1.2 million and we made a nominal sale with 1100 bags of soybean per hector equivalent to BRL8 million generating to the company with this divestment 22.3%. So our strategy both for growth and also operational results must be followed by real estate results at the time of the sale. We’re always thinking of delivering operational results and real estate results. So when we have an opportunity, we will be there selling and monetizing these properties for the company. On Page 4 estimates for the harvest here some highlights. The great highlights is this graph on the left of the page please, where we have an important increase. We went from 102.8000 hectares and now 134.7000 hectares. So this we already mentioned in previous calls, due to the incorporation through partnerships and you have a good cash flow for the company in the state of Mato Grosso, where we know that the volatility is lower and this asset put the company on a new level of production for soybean. We'd like to stress here that this increase of approximately 23.6000 hectares this increase the company was very conservative because of the time when we bought this asset. So now we have - we were able to have all the planting of seeds in the ideal month in the ideal window. And being cautious the company made decisions in the first year not to plant 100% of the second harvest. So I would say that we have a buffer for next year. So with a well structured operation and with all the structure ready yes, we will have, we will include another 8,000 to 10,000 hectares of harvest in the next harvest. And this is what will happen due to this inclusion of this part of the asset of the property. Now I'd like to mention some other highlights not only in Mato Grosso, but all the farmland properties we were able to plant the seeds in the ideal months in Brazil and Paraguay, also Paraguay has ended the planting season. The window there is December 20th to December/January, and we finished planting on January 20. In Brazil too as you have followed and we reported this in our news, the drought in January affected some of the company's properties specially in MAPITO, but this drought had a difference. It happened in the month when you have strong growth of the plants. So the drought did not come at the time of flowering. So no doubt there will be some impact because when you plant in a large area what we do as we plant a little early than at the time and a little less. So the first soybean we plant, these were affected a little in the region of MAPITO. So I believe the combination and diversification of the portfolio of the company until now we believe with an increase in some regions with productivity above our budget, we should be close to our budgeted soybean harvest. Corn as you have to plant in a certain time. We plant at a little earlier and so it had an impact because we did this in January and we might have a small reduction in the yields. Our exposure to corn is very small in the company. We have 1,000 - 1,300, 1,400 hectares in Bahia so although the impact is important, it is an impact that can be compensated if soybean gives us a yield a little higher than our expectations. This is what we had to say. The second point, cotton, we planted cotton in Chaparral Farm. It was planted during the ideal – in the ideal time. Now we spent the last 22 days in a period that we call vegetative. So the impact is very small in production. So we hope that this will deliver our budgeted amounts in this farm. Another point I'd like to highlight, the production of sugarcane. Our estimate 2.2 million, we will stress later on the production of 1.8 million as I said in the previous slide. Then we will see the increase but you are constantly monitoring this. We invested a lot in sugarcane plantations in the last few years. We did the same last year. Large services were planted with sugarcane and they will produce a harvest in 2019 giving us higher productivity. So you follow not only BrasilAgro but other companies, other players in the sector, and you saw that we had a winter, we had a dry crop of sugarcane in winter. This may bring an impact next year, but part of this impact may be compensated by the increase in productivity due to the new areas we have. So this drought also brought some adversity. A very complicated year in terms of the control of burned areas. We do not burn sugarcane and – but there is a risk of fires in sugarcane plantations. We had one fire in Mato Grosso and the other in Maranhão. These fires affected in their majority areas that had already been harvested and some fires affected in October and November the sugarcane before the harvest. Every time you have a fire, you have to resize the harvest and intensify the harvesting of the sugarcane that has suffered fire. So this was one of the reasons why we will have this reduction. A reduction that we had 2.7 linked to this phenomena of fires. I believe that the company's numbers are better than the rest of the properties in the Midwest. We saw some impact if we look at the Midsouth like Ribeirao Preto, Sao Jose do Rio Preto, 8% to 12% losses, but we are below that. We're monitoring and we're working to have smaller impact in our results. These areas for example, we added fertilizer to have less impact during the next harvest. Another highlight, 250,000 tons of grain; 250,000 represents 153,000 tons of soybeans, one part corn, and also the second harvest of corn which is planted in Mato Grosso. So we began the harvest, we in Xingu we have 15% to 20% already harvested and after that we're planting this area. That is the second campaign as we call it, a good culture and with the good rain we had in Mato Grosso in the second week of January. In cattle raising also, we used this in the new areas of the company. So this is being used in a very robust way. I believe and I say that cattle raising is a tool for us. We know we have volatility in cattle raising too, not for operational results but by taking cattle raising areas and transforming into grain plantation areas. We did this in Jatoba in Q1, part of the cattle raising area the pasture is being converted to plantations with grain. We will give you more details about this in the slide on cattle raising. Slide 5, the results of the harvest, reduction of productivity that was expected a 60 to 68 here. We'd like to stress we know you’ll follow us you saw the productivity of the company 80, 85 tons. So and this reduction 60 to 68 is due to social day partnership number four which is an important operation. And when we began to manage the sugarcane plantation it had a very low productivity. We are increasing the productivity every year renewing the sugarcane plantation. This is the main highlight on this page that we would like to comment. Next Page 5, results of the sugarcane planting basically I call your attention to two numbers please, reduction of productivity that we mentioned. This reduction in productivity in the revenue line this was attenuated although there was a reduction of tons of sugarcane per hector. Although we had a reduction, we had an increase in revenue half of this increase came from the price and part by increasing the concentration. This is the characteristic of the plant. With a more difficult winter you have an increase in the concentration of sugar in the sugarcane. So you have less volume, but a better sugarcane and sucrose or sugar. So when we look at the expected billing it was within the revenue of the company was higher than that of last year 4.6% although we had a reduction in tonnage. Two points approximately 2.7% less in tonnage and 4.6% higher in revenue. So this is the result here I’d like to highlight a reduction from 49 to 35. This comes we talked about this many times the new operation in which sugarcane in the state of Maranhão in the North of the country, During the first year, we worked and this year we began to have the need to improve so 2017, 2018 49 million and this without adding fertilizer. This year we added fertilizer and it went to 35 which is around 1,300, 1,400 per hector in treated farmland. So what can you expect in terms of results with this productivity. This result is here once again 44 million, 45 million as you can see and with the renovation with fertilizer we include depreciation around 8 million to 9 million which will bring this results of 35 million, 36 million for the future years. Now there is a project we are increasing productivity every year. We increase the productivity every year and for cash effect for cash generation we may consider this number 40 million, 45 million in sugarcane in this project. And for accounting purposes, we discount the depreciation. Page 6, the results of cattle raising. As I said this is a tool for transformation. We have important numbers with cattle raising now when we look at cattle raising and here we need to clarify. Cattle raising – has two seasons the dry season and the rainy season when we show, when we present to you our numbers for the first semester it’s a number most of the months June and July, September or October. You have a little pasture because it's the end of the dry season. Then in November the pasture it becomes better with the rainy season. So the numbers of Q1 second Q1, Q2 for cattle raising is still not strong, but it includes only one month with a lot of good pasture December. So in January, February and March we will have a better pasture with the rainy season and important gains to the better pasture. Here our numbers were our estimates 2956 kilograms of beef. Here I mentioned this already with the sale of the Jatobá farm we decided to convert some areas that were being used for pasture to soybean plantation. Thus we will have less areas with pastures at the end of this year. So this way we’re maintaining our inventory of cattle. We won’t have to sell part of them and we are not increasing. So we may expect a reduction between 200 kilograms per year 200,000 and this is more of a real estate decisions than operational. We’re having a lot of a liquidity in this farmland so it makes sense to sell the farmland. Well going on to page 7, we have the hedge position on February 1. As I mentioned previously it was it has been actually a year with many challenges for all the companies in this sector since we began a harvest with great uncertainty in sugarcane. Also this year we had elections and thus we had a good position in U.S. dollars we were able to monetize this because of the election year. Today we have a production covered by hedge 63.4% in soybean with hedge 7,500 tons of soybean with hedge and we also have hedge in the exchange rate 71.6 with an average exchange rate of BRL4 0.05 to $1. This was in October and November and we captured part of this volatility. Yes it's a challenging year as I said there are important impacts in freight. In the previous call you asked us about freight prices. We’re open to clarify any points today to clarify when we made our budget. We began in July we were working with the numbers of May and then there were the problems at the time we didn't have the problems between U.S. and China. We had not had also the truck driver’s strike still the company today when preparing a budget its more difficulty more difficult - today we have 2% to 3% below the budget and our budget was soybean at 10.20 and exchange rate of BRL3.7 to $1. So then we had the problems today we have this combination and with the tools that we use we have 2% to 3%. I believe strongly that as I said before this great volatility that happened in December/January. There are expectations for a smaller lower harvest in Brazil there is data from soybean talking about 12 million to 14 million tons less in the Brazilian harvest an extra challenge, but this might allow us to capture a better premium in the soybean that hasn’t been sold yet. Our strategy most of this was already done, was already sold and our strategy and that where we have, where we have storage areas we are holding on to inventory. So we brought to you numbers the freight we had in the budget. The freight to the port BRL200, BRL197 in freight today the same freight is BRL250. Freight went up this is a challenging impact, the increase in freight prices we’re trying to mitigate this with other operations with hedging for soybeans. Well I'd like to pass the floor to Gustavo. Gustavo will clarify the numbers including adjusted EBITDA. Thank you very much.