Dongting Lake region is a very important production base of grain, cotton, plants oil and aquatic products in Hunan province. Its agricultural development has a direct impact on the overall economic development of Hunan province This paper builds a multivariate regression equation to analyze the factors influencing Dongting Lake region's agricultural development from 1986 to 2008, such as total power of agricultural machinery, sown area of crops, tractor-ploughing area and amount of fertilizer applied. The result shows that, with one percent i...