Wheat is an important food crop in India in terms of area, production and consumer preference and is an important source of global food security. Emerging world demand for wheat offers a great opportunity for a producer like India to grab the world wheat market. The objective of the study is to find the impact of economic reforms on export performance of wheat in India. Present study explores the growth performance of wheat export of India for the time period 1991 to 2016 by using trend analysis, compound annual growth rate, percentage share in total agricultural exports/imports, percentage share in total merchandise exports/imports and Balassa’s Index of comparative advantage.

KEY WORDS: Wheat, Export performance, Comparative advantage, Merchandise, Compound growth rate.