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Less than 10 percent area of Manipur state is used for cultivation due to geographical constraints. So, to mitigate the increasing demand of foods there has been great prerequisite to increase crop yield. Under this background it has become important to get a clear idea about the current status of agricultural and horticultural crop production. To know the overall growth status of crop productivity trend analysis is a very helpful tool. For this purpose we employ trend analysis to study the overall movement or the changing pattern of different agricultural and horticultural crops in Manipur state. We have considered ten agricultural and horticultural crops, namely, rice, maize, oilseeds, pulses, vegetables, pineapple, citrus, chillies, ginger and turmeric for the period of 1997 to 2016. From trend analysis it was observed that yield of rice, total oilseeds and turmeric follow a cubic polynomial trend, maize have a quadratic trend, total pulses and two fruit crops viz., citrus and pineapple follow a linear trend. Chilli and vegetables follow a compound trend.