eng Science and Education Publishing Journal of Business and Management Sciences 2333-4533 2015-04-13 3 1 26 31 10.12691/jbms-3-1-4 JBMS2015314 article Somu Jena somujena1000@gmail.com 1 Department of Business Administration Utkal University, Bhubaneswar India-751004 In this paper an extensive study is carried out to estimate the rice production in India based on current and historical data. The significant factors studied are land used, irrigation and production respectively. To study the strength of interdependence between the factors and estimation of production multivariate correlation analysis and regression analysis have been applied. To predict the future production of rice different time series techniques have been studied for better comparison. To facilitate the entire study and maintain quality, consistency and accuracy of data SPSS- 20.0 version software is used. http://pubs.sciepub.com/jbms/3/1/4/jbms-3-1-4.pdf rice production land used irrigation multivariate regression analysis time series analysis