Enhancing Community Based Economic Value through Local Material Utilization within the Value Chain of Hed Cone Noi (Coprinopsis cinerea) Mushroom Cultivation in Chiang Mai Province

Background and Objectives: Hed-cone noi (Coprinopsis cinerea) is a saprophytic, edible mushroom widely distributed in Thailand’s tropical forest, particularly in the dry evergreen forests, mixed deciduous forest, and deciduous dipterocarp forest where leaf litter accumulates on the soil surface and termite mounds are present. The species also proliferates on moist piles of organic residues such as rice straw, legume residues, and sugarcane bagasse in high humidity, particularly after Thailand’s