This research aims to shed light on the roles of general agricultural cooperative societies in their various sectors (agricultural credit - agrarian reform - agricultural reclamation) for achieving social and economic empowerment of youth and women in rural society through access to proposals of members of these societies concerning the roles that cooperatives should play in that would achieve the prospected empowerment. The research sample consisted of four organizations entrusted with agricultural cooperatives: the Central Agricultural Cooperative Union, the General Agricultural Cooperative Association for Multi-Purpose Credit, the General Cooperative Society for Reclaimed Land, and the General Agricultural Cooperative Society for Agrarian Reform), in Cairo city. The study belongs to the evaluative type of studies, where the social survey method was used by a purposed (meaningful) sample, based on the questionnaire as a basic tool for data collection. The questionnaire forms were applied to (182) forms on all members of the agricultural cooperative societies in the Cairo area, for identifying their opinions about the roles of these societies in social empowerment and economic development for youth and women within the rural community. It also drives at identifying the most important challenges facing agricultural cooperatives. The research reached many results, the most important of which is that it was proved that there are roles for agricultural cooperative societies that will achieve social and economic empowerment of youth and women in the rural society. In addition, there was a set of challenges facing agricultural cooperative societies, standing as an obstacle to these societies for achieving the emerging empowerment. These results were statistically proven by) Cronbach Alpha (test using the SPSS statistical program.