“Dragon Fruit Regional Network Initiation Workshop”, organized by the Food & Fertilizer Technology Center (FFTC) and co-organized by the Mekong Institute (MI), the New Zealand Plant & Food Research, and the Taiwan Agricultural Research Institute (TARI), was held at Howard Civil Service International House, Taipei, 23-24 April, 2018. A total of 21 papers were presented and about 70 participants from 7 Asian Pacific countries attended the workshop. After workshop, the country representatives, speaker and experts were invited to a field trip to visit dragon fruit orchards located in Waipu, Taichung on 25 April, through interacting and discussing with the local farmers in field, they were able to collect the first hand information on cultivation of dragon fruit in Taiwan. On 26th April, the “Steering Committee Meeting” was held at TARI and aimed on issues of “improved cultivars”, “production methods”, “pest and diseases”, and “postharvest and marketing”, the purpose of the meeting was to identify the main problems that the dragon fruit industry has encountered in Asia. By deliberating these issues, a consensus on the structure and function of a regional network on the whole value chain of dragon fruit has been reached, and hopefully more collaborative research programs could be jointly developed for resolving the problems of dragon fruit thereafter.