It is home to fishermen, farmers, labourers, toddy tappers and coir spinners. Though toddy tappers by profession, they rely mostly on cultivation. There are, however, tappers which allow tapping without significant added attenuation. Most people in Jeli work as rubber tappers. At first, the people worked as fish mongers, rubber tappers and miners. Most of the 15,000 inhabitants earned meagre incomes as mining workers and rubber tappers. Jolas are also palm oil manufacturers and palm wine tappers in the Senegambian region. Arriving in Porto Acre, it was prevented from continuing its movement by Brazilian rubber tappers. It had been targeted by slave catchers, rubber tappers, and even some military operations. The 1920s conflict between the Cinta Larga group and rubber tappers grew in the 1960s. Latchanna organised and led the tappers satyagraha to secure rehabilitation for the unemployed tappers. Rubber tappers additionally faced a severe lack of education. In 1902, rubber tappers made a deal with Castro. Her family was of "humble background", and both her parents were rubber tappers. Because tappers worked in near complete isolation, they were not burdened by overseers and timetables.