营林生产是否为商品生产,这是目前营林生产实践和理论研究中迫切需要探讨的一个基本问题。“以营林为基础”方针的落实;国营林场从事业单位转向企业化管理;营林生产单位经济效果的评价;以及林价、营林产值等若干经济范畴的研究,无不涉及这一问题。尤其是在当前体制改革的过程中,这一问题的重要性更加引起人们的重视。从理论上进行深入探讨,搞清营林商品生产的客观必然性,对指导营林生产,制定改革措施,有着十分重要的意义。为此,本文试图从营林生产的特点出发,通过对营林产品——活 Whether the production of silviculture is the production of commodities is a basic issue urgently needed to be explored in the practice and theoretical research of silviculture. The implementation of the policy of “based on silviculture”; the transformation of state-owned forestry farms from enterprises to enterprise management; the evaluation of economic effects of silviculture production units; and the study of several economic categories such as forest price and silviculture output value all involve this issue. Especially in the current institutional reform, the importance of this issue has drawn more and more attention. To conduct in-depth discussions in theory and find out the objective necessity of the production of silviculture products is of great significance for guiding the production of silviculture and formulating the reform measures. To this end, this article attempts to proceed from the characteristics of the forest production, through the forest products - live