A field experiment on rainfed sunflower was conducted during kharif 2014 at College farm, College of Agriculture, Rajendranagar, Hyderabad to study the effect of humic acid under nutrient management practices on dry matter accumulation, yield attributes, yield and nutrient uptake of rainfed sunflower. The experiment was laid out in Split plot design with eighteen treatments (six main and three sub-treatments and replicated thrice). The six main treatments consisted of (M1) - Absolute control, M2 - compost @ 2.5 t ha-1, M3 - compost @ 5.0 t ha-1, M4 - RDF alone (60-60-30 kg N, P2O5 and K2O), M5 - RDF + compost @ 2.5 t ha-1 and M6 - RDF + compost @ 5.0 t ha-1 and the three sub-plot treatments consisted of application of varying levels of humic acid granules (basal) viz., S1 - 5.0 kg ha-1, S2 - 10.0 kg ha-1 and S3 - 15.0 kg ha-1. The results revealed that among all the nutrient management practices maximum dry matter accumulation, seed, oil yield (1859 and 741 kg ha-1) and nutrient uptake (N, P and K) at all the crop growth stages were recorded with the combined application of RDF (60-60-30 N, P2O5 and K2O kg ha-1) + compost @ 5 t ha-1 and the lowest growth parameters, yield attributes and yield were observed under absolute control. The effect of varying levels of humic acid was found to be significant only on dry matter accumulation at harvest and nitogen uptake at 60 DAS. The interaction effect was found to be non-significant.