This study was designed to compare the level of technical efficiency in the compound and
non compound farms in Imo state. A multi-stage random sampling technique was used to
select 120 food crop farmers from two out of the three agricultural zones in Imo state. Using
the Chow (1960) analysis of covariance technique the farmers were found to be equally
technically efficient in the two farm types. The result showed that capital, labour and other
inputs such as seeds, fertilizers and agro-chemicals are highly significant determinants of
technical efficiency in the two farm types. The results of the returns to scale showed that the
farmers operated in region one of their production functions. This is suggestive of the
possibility of higher crop output with an increase in the level of aggregate input use in both
farm types at the prevailing level of technology.