Privatization approach is one of a number of promising new and alternative management approaches that have emerged in recent decades for agricultural development. Development of consulting services firms in agricultural sector is an optimal solution to agricultural development of Iran. For this purpose, one of the measures taken by the country's agricultural development planners and policymakers is establishing the network of agricultural engineering and technical consulting services firms (AETCSFs) in terms of outsourcing agricultural services and extension activities. The purpose of this paper was to analyze strategies for development of AETCFs in Hamedan and Malayer County of Iran. For this purpose a multiple case study was used in the mentioned counties. This study was an applied research the method of which is based on survey method. Statistical population of the research consists in 8 firms in Hamedan and 9 firms in Malayer and 102 members of AETCFs, which is done by census. The research instrument was a self-made questionnaire. Questionnaire validity was approved by a panel of experts while the Cronbach's alpha method was utilized to secure its reliability that Cronbach's alpha test score was calculated 0.74 which shows the desirable situation. In analyzing data, it is used from different method; especially from Factor analysis (Amount of KMO is equal to 0.743). The results showed that strategies for development of AETCFs can be categorized in 6 factors; incentive-supportive, making necessary situation, quality improvement, education and learning, local capacity and organizing. In the whole, about 68% of total variance was explained. It can be concluded that there isn’t enough support of the real privatization and AETCSFs.
