In the era of the Staple Food Control Law, because the cultivation of rice that gave large yields was promoted, many excellent sakamai varieties were extinguished.
食糧管理法の時代は、収量の大きい米の栽培ばかりが促進されたために、多くの優れた酒米が絶滅した（参考日本酒の歴史昭和時代後期）。