SAO PAULO, June 5 (Reuters) - After selling a 50% stake

to meatpacker JBS in April, Brazilian egg producer

Mantiqueira Brasil is starting greenfield projects in the U.S.,

the company's president said on Thursday during an industry

event in Sao Paulo.

Leandro Pinto said his son is in the U.S. overseeing the

projects in Colorado.

Outbreaks of avian flu, known as bird flu, which caused the

death of millions of birds in the U.S. and Europe, gave

Brazilian eggs suppliers the chance to increase market share in

global markets.

Brazilian companies can both produce eggs locally and

export, as well as set up production facilities in other

continents, Pinto said.

"We have plans to go to the world," Pinto said as he

mentioned Mantiqueira's first greenfield projects in Colorado,

where JBS already operated large meat plants.