After that, around 1960, as the sources of ebi-imo around the land of its birth, Kyoto and Osaka, gradually became residential areas, Chuen became the main source, and has remained so up to the present day.
その後、30年代半ばになると、本場の京都や大阪周辺の海老芋の産地が、次々と住地化されていったため、中遠地方が主産地となり現在に至っている。