This study on Government Support Interventions and Autonomy of Agricultural Cooperativesrntried to analyze the overall approach and focus areas of government support to agriculturalrncooperatives in enhancing their capacity and its implications on their autonomy. In addition,rnthe importance, strength, and weakness of government support to agricultural cooperativesrnhave also been explored in this thesis.rnThe study used qualitative and quantitative approach of data collection and analysis by meansrnof structured questionnaires to sample members and employees of primary cooperatives andrnunion as the basic data source and structured interviews with experts in the cooperative sector.rnThe study shows that Ethiopian cooperative support bodies at different levels of governmentrnand administration put significant effort to support agricultural cooperative development. Thernsupports to agricultural cooperatives in different tier levels vary from regulating therncooperative sector with just laws to direct human resource and material support. Thesernsupports to agricultural cooperatives are mostly in the form of trainings, cooperative servicesrnand relatively little material support through government support bodies in federal, regional,rnzone and lower levels.rnThe findings of the study also indicate that the government support to agricultural cooperativesrnhas played enormous role in creating awareness about cooperatives and their advantagesrnamong farmers, increasing the number and role of cooperatives in the agriculture sector andrnensuring sustainable growth of cooperatives. While engaging to support and provide servicesrnto agricultural cooperatives that are formally declared autonomous by proclamation,rngovernment support bodies intervenes in their internal matters. These interventions happenrnfrom the formation stage of new cooperatives to the day-to-day activities of matured ones.rnThese interferences are not necessarily uniform, but sufficiently strong enough to posernchallenges to cooperative business operation performance and growth across the studiedrnregions