Hehya is one of the ancient villages, and Gauthier mentioned in his dictionary a village with the name "heho" and said that it is the name of a sub-district in Lower Egypt, and often it is the ancient Egyptian name for the town of Hehya because of the similarity between them. There is opportunity for investment in (land reclamation - food industries - dairy products - handicraft industries - ready-made clothes - chemical industries - building materials - wooden products - engineering industries).