There are 8 projects in Fayoum for land reclamation, and cultivating with a total
area of 3769 feddan. The area is located at the end of the governorate and is examined experts since water needed for the irrigation is still not available.
Projects for land reclamation are located as follows:

1-Kota area:

an area of 6,000 feddan . Investment studies & documents are conducted & sponsored by the Italian aid

2-Karoun area:

2,500 feddan.

3-Koum Ousheem north and east bahr wahbey:

an area of 9,000 feddan .Studies concerning its reclamation are conducted & sponsored by the Japanese aid

4-Wadi Alrayan area:

an area of 10,000 feddan whose reclamation is sponsored by the supreme authority for investment.                

Raw materials and resources provide good opportunities for investment in Fayoum. Investment projects based on animal resources are distributed all over the governorate.

Examples of these projects are as follows:
1. Raising cattle & sheep for meat .
   
2. Raising rabbits, ducks, poultry, and turkey.
   
3. Raising ostrich for meat, feather and leather

Qaroon & Wady al Rayan lakes are considered to be the key fish resources for investment in Fayoum.

Examples of fish resources based projects are as follows:
• Fish resources development.
  
• Fish cultivation farms.
  
• Sea fish hatches.
  
• Fish manufacturing.
  
• Fish &fish fodder manufacturing.
  
• Fishing boats building and equipment maintenance.

Koom Ousheem(The first industrial zone)
The Industrial city of El Fath(first phase"A").
The industrial city of El Fath (secondphase"B").
Kota Area(the second industrial zone).

Cartoon manufacturing.
Furniture manufacturing.
Shoe, leather & fur products, manufacturing.


Plastics, manufacturing.
Ready – made garments.
Paints manufacturing.
Doors and windows manufacturing
Engineering industries.
Spinning and texture industries:
Like : sewing and embroidering clothes - dyeing and preparing - spinning and texturing carpets - producing cotton underwear - producing pile texture (towels) - dwell - producing cotton clothes.
Simple mechanical engineering industries.
Like: producing agriculture mechanics - producing irrigating mechanics - industries of packing and covering - industries of paper and printing - producing various kinds of wood - producing furniture - industries of leather (shoes and bags) - chemical industries (soap, perfumes, glass) - industries of ceramics.
Hi-tecnology industries:
Like :assembling computers, radio, cassettes, televisions, air-conditions equipment, Hi-Tec chips - the needs of plastics and polymers - producing high voltage transformer - producing color television monitors - producing telephone, television, satellites wires.
Electrical /electronic/ electric tools and equipment.
Chemical and detergents industries.
Small industries.

• Separating, preparing & packing vegetables and fruits.
• Producing & packing jam and juice.
• Producing & packing sauce and its derives.
• Drying garlic and onions.
• Producing & hydrogenating food oil.
• Preparing corn and producing paste.
• Packing honey and the bee's queens food
• Raising up bees.
• Pasteurization and producing yogurt & cheese.
• Raising livestock for meat and milk.
• Raising up chicken for meat & eggs.
• Building factories for preparing red and white meat.
• Manufacturing medical and perfumed plants products.
• Storing & freezing vegetables, fruits, meat and fish.
• Producing bags from both natural & manufactured fibers.
• Transporting and distributing agricultural products.
• Building grinds for corn to produce the high quality flour, macaroni flour and paste
• Producing, preparing, and packing mushroom.
• Producing, spinning, and texturing natural silk.
• Manufacturing leather and glue.
• Producing and renting agriculture mechanics.
• Producing wood from cotton wastes and palm trees.

Investment projects associated with mining recourses are as follows:

• Employing the available types of soils in the manufacturing process of building materials as bricks, ceramics and sanitary.
• Producing basalt breaks.
• Using Pentonyte in digging oil wells & other industries.
• Using dytatoyeb for multi industrial purposes.

The minerals available in fayoum are:-
• TAFLA
  It is extracted from Koum Ousheem, Qalamshah, and it is used for making bricks & cement pottery.
• Ordinary sand
  It extracted from the northeastern parts of the governorate, Wady al Rayan area
  Qalamshah, Qasr el Bassel. It is used in the manufacturing of building materials, paving, and sand bricks.
  
• Pebble
  
  It is extracted as layers from El Qatraney Mountain.

  Delomite
  

  It's extracted from El Qatraney Mountain, Qasr el Sagha. It is used for manufacturing of steel
  Heat-bricks, glass & paving.
  

  Basalt
  

  Extracted from the upper part of the Qatraney mountain.. It is well known for its hardness, so it is
  Used for paving & railways.
  

  Lime stone:
  

  It's extracted from Kouta, Qaroun& it 's used in the manufacturing of steel, cement, bricks, papers glass, polishing rice, building, mosaieque , and paving

  Petrol:
  

  Oil wells are discovered in the north of Qaroun Lake, east and west of Wady el
  Rayan , the south of Qaroun lake. Production per day is estimated to be 2000 barrel, while reserves are about 5.6 million-barrel

The investment in the habitation field varies, in Fayoum, as the total area of the governorate is 6,068.7 km².
The inhabited area has a total of 1,849.34 km2 with a percentage that is not to exceed 30.48% of the available area in Fayoum.
The population intensity to the total area is 345,75 per square kilometer.
The population intensity to the inhabited area is 1134,41 per square kilometer.
This shows that the investment in this field is promising. The governorate is in need for it, and the required spaces are available.
The total population number in Fayoum, is 2,098,250

The suggested fields, for investments are:
1-The building of residential and industrial communities in : New Fayoum city, and Hawara Al Maktaa’ area. The desert area that is 12 km south east of Fayoum city, has been chosen to be the New Fayoum city, as a city related to Fayoum to absorb the expected increase in the mother city. The philosophy of planning in Fayoum depends upon.
- The transfer of the axis of construction development to the desert areas, away from the agricultural land, in order to reduce the present pressure, on the public facilities, also to redistribute the habitation map of the governorate probably.
- Giving these new communities the chance to succeed, either by reallocating the present activities and providing spaces for them, or by adding new activities that contribute effectively in creating real and new work opportunities, which will ensure the stability of the residents.
- The creation of a new community that is suitable environmentally, and well prepared from the service side, has all the success factors, so the New Fayoum city is qualified enough to absorb the increase in population, of the Mother city.
- The total area of the city is 1300 feddan, 200 feddan of them are allocated to be green areas. It is expected that the new city will contain 100,000 population till the year 2015.
2-Building of new residential buildings in Kom Osheem.
3-Establishment of cement, pink, heat bricks factories. Expanding the tafla bricks industry and ceramics.
4-Establishing tiles and stairs factories with all of their kinds.