Department of Fisheries Economics and Statistics, College of Fisheries (Central Agricultural University), Lembucherra – 799 210, West Tripura, Tripura (India).
Author is thankful to the anonymous referee for his valuable comments on the paper.
The extent of income inequality, contribution of alternative income sources to inequality as well as their relative and marginal effects with special reference to fish production in the West Tripura district of Tripura state have been examined for the year 2003–04. The data have been collected from 60 fish-farming households in three selected blocks by multi-stage random sampling method. The Gini has been decomposed by income sources using the approach of Lerman and Yitzhaki, which views each source's contribution to inequality as the product of its own inequality, its share of total income, and its correlation with the rank of cumulative total income. The study has indicated that to make the family income distribution more equitable among the fish-farming households, the fish production has a pivot role to play.
